Comment by poiklers on 14/07/2021 at 18:49 UTC

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View submission: Safety update on Reddit’s follow feature

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don't worry, that's a RES feature, not a reddit feature. It's a locally saved friends list that just highlights comments people you have tagged as a friend.

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Comment by GoldieFox at 14/07/2021 at 21:36 UTC

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It's not an RES feature, it's a pretty old Old Reddit feature that preceded the "follow" function (which I think was introduced with New Reddit)

Comment by rocksalamander at 14/07/2021 at 18:50 UTC

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Thank God, it really annoys me that followers were not set up with some kind of restriction option for the person being followed in the first place.

I didn't particularly want some random person friending me also.

Comment by if0rg0t2remember at 15/07/2021 at 05:21 UTC

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It is an OLD reddit feature not a RES feature.

Comment by GDmofo at 15/07/2021 at 08:08 UTC

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There is a separate friends tag that's not part of RES, but actually part of reddit. I sometimes see people that I tagged as friend like 10 years ago on a fresh RES install.