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To stay in sync with somebody, you follow their feed. Scuttlebot will search the network for new messages by your followed users.

Following is controlled by Contact messages that are published on your feed.

Follow users

sbot.publish({
  type: 'contact',
  contact: userId,
  following: true 
}, cb)

sbot publish --type contact --contact {userId} --following

Example usage (don't copy this directly):

sbot.publish({
  type: 'contact',
  contact: '@hxGxqPrplLjRG2vtjQL87abX4QKqeLgCwQpS730nNwE=.ed25519',
  following: true 
}, cb)

sbot publish \
  --type contact \
  --contact "@hxGxqPrplLjRG2vtjQL87abX4QKqeLgCwQpS730nNwE=.ed25519" \
  --following

Unfollow users

sbot.publish({
  type: 'contact',
  contact: userId,
  following: false
}, cb)

sbot publish --type contact --contact {userId} --no-following

Example usage (don't copy this directly):

sbot.publish({
  type: 'contact',
  contact: '@hxGxqPrplLjRG2vtjQL87abX4QKqeLgCwQpS730nNwE=.ed25519',
  following: false 
}, cb)

sbot publish \
  --type contact \
  --contact "@hxGxqPrplLjRG2vtjQL87abX4QKqeLgCwQpS730nNwE=.ed25519" \
  --no-following