why are pulling follows follows?
pull your follows, and add others on a need basis, or even pull on the fly when needed then discard/keep in memory
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because that's the people that will show on my timeline, as my follows interact with their follows. I'm not processing after that, but it's the bare minimum to have a more complete feed. it's not needed as nothing happens automatically, you need to run the query manually..
if you only do this with your active follows, the ones who posted a note in the day, it should decrease