I fear we will get flooded by bots if most people follow this advice. I went through quite some effort to check each follow for track record and probably being an actual human or at least cats 😉 and wish others would do so, too.
Discussion
True it doesn’t hurt to peek at their feed first. My main point is don’t be stingy with follows, especially if you ask for recommendations of who to follow and then get several. I see the same pattern over and over. Ask for recommendations, get dozens, ignore most of them, follow the twitter influencers instead. While there is some overlap, NOStr is its own place and it’s best to follow the people who are active here if you want to see activity in your feed 😂
My point is that the corndalorian impersonator or the LLM bot will be way more effective at reacting to all noobs than you and me, so noobs will end up following fake accounts this way. The timeline can be a copy of another timeline - even back-dated and the noob would have no way of knowing.