I guess it bears repeating. Bluntly this time.
If you're going to send a follow request, please do something with your Mastodon/Pleroma/Whatever profile. No activity on your instance account looks fishy. 🐟 I'm just going to cancel it outright if that's the case.
I know I'm not the only one on the Fediverse that feels this way.
@bob Agreed, but that might be up to the instance.
@claudiom A step in the initial registration process should be to fill out a profile, and don't make that skippable. It might help to reduce spam also.