I'm worried that if I follow the people I agree with that I will end up with the bland greyness that algorithms are starting to provide in our advertising (yes I looked for hiking boots once!). I want to know everyone's thoughts, not just those of people I relate the most to. What do you feel can be gained by following people, apart from finding out you have less in common with them than you initially thought?
I have followed a couple of people right off the bat when I joined the site. Mostly out of curiosity. I haven't seen any benefit from it.
You don’t have to worry about advertising here. Not that I have seen anyway. I follow people here that I find post interesting questions statements videos or links. I follow people that I don’t agree with on most things as well. I like to hear different opinions that’s why I drop into the conservative group just to see what they are talking about and get a different perspective. But most of the time they are just bad mouthing us libratards (liberal atheist) and saying we are as bad as Christians. I just scroll through that stuff while trying to see where they are coming from.