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Following People and the Social Graph

Follow other Glassy members, see their public notes in a single feed, and share your own public window — the social layer of your knowledge base.

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Before you start

  • getting-started/01-welcome-to-glassy

What you'll learn

  • Follow other Glassy members and manage your following list
  • Read the following feed and understand what appears in it
  • Publish your own Public Window for others to follow
  • Understand what is public and what stays private

Glassy is single-player at its core, but your knowledge becomes more interesting when you can follow people whose notes you respect. Following (beta.31+) adds that social layer without turning your library into a feed you have to babysit.

Following someone

Open a public window on the instance where you are signed in and use Follow. Glassy records a relationship to that local identity, rather than subscribing to alternate URLs for the same person. Manage people in Following → People; external RSS subscriptions belong in Publications.

Counts, notifications, and discovery

Public windows show follower counts, and following a person sends that account a notification. The opt-in discovery strip helps find local Glassy identities. Following a Glassy person does not consume the external RSS publication quota.

Your public window

Use your profile settings to configure your window and choose what to publish. See the Public Window guide for publishing controls and plan requirements.

Following does not grant access to private content. On private instances, anonymous requests for follower counts are rejected before resolving the slug. Keep private notes private; publishing and following are separate decisions.