Friends & Following

Following and friendship are not the same

They work separately and do different jobs:

• Following is one-way. You do not need permission; that person's posts start appearing in your feed. They are under no obligation to follow you back.
• Friendship is mutual. You send a request, and if the other person accepts you become friends. Friends appear in each other's friend list, and some posts are visible to friends only.

Following someone

Go to a profile (/profil/nickname) and press “+ Follow” at the top right. The button becomes “Following”; hover over it and it reads “Unfollow”, which stops it.

You can see who you follow and who follows you on /arkadaslar. To read only the people you follow, use the Following tab in the feed.

Adding a friend

1. Go to the person's profile.
2. Press “Add friend” — the request is sent and the button becomes “Request sent”.
3. They get a notification. If they accept you become friends; if they decline nothing happens and you are not told separately.

Requests you receive appear on /arkadaslar and in your notifications, and you accept or decline them with one click. Ending a friendship works the same way, with “Remove friend” — the other person is not notified.

From chat (WebChat)

Right-click a nickname in the user list or in the conversation: the menu has Add / remove friend, Follow / unfollow, Block and Private message. The tabs in the profile box on the left (My feed · Friends · Following · Groups · Status) give you the lists.

Blocking

Someone you block cannot send you private messages or interact with you. Blocking is silent — they are not told they have been blocked.

If someone is bothering you, do not stop at blocking: report them, from the right-click menu in chat or the 🚩 Report link under a post or comment on the site. Reports go to the moderators.

The same thing with IRC commands

/ss FOLLOW deniz          — follow
/ss UNFOLLOW deniz        — unfollow
/ss FOLLOWERS             — your followers
/ss FOLLOWING             — who you follow

Full list: SocialServ commands.