Hi @Georg I think they're connecting because some (many? all?) of the pubs follow each other so they're connecting to get your latest posts because they see you are friends (mutual follow) with a pub they are friends with. It is nothing to worry about :)

Welcome to Scuttlebutt! It's a little confusing at first but it start to make more sense after a while. If you have any more questions, please ask. It's late here so I may not see any reply you send until tomorrow but hopefully someone else will jump in

If you feel up to it, it might be nice to say a little about yourself here in the #new-people channel so that others who share your interests can see and say hello!

Have fun exploring.

Hi @Georg there's a whole load of work being done on onboarding. Have you met @Zach!? He's a really cool guy and he built an invite generator that I think is fantastic. @dinosaur is working on pubs as a service which will make it easier to set one up to invite your friends rather than get an invite from a public pub - and also make it easier of course to create public pubs :) In fact there's a whole loads of discussion and development going on so please feel free to jump in and participate. You might find it interesting to subscribe to a few channels or just drift and follow whatever sounds interesting!

That's a great explanation @Zach! I learned something from that too! Thank you.

@Georg fog of war is a great way of thinking about it. @D said the same thing when they were first exploring :)

thanks for the explanation @Zach! -- made me wonder if it would be nice to have a "help" link in the Patchwork UI pointing to an explanation like that.