I can't help but join in with the current "discourse" spawned by a follow-recommendation feature in the latest RC version of Mastodon.
I've seen some take it as an attempted movement towards better user retention, and talk about why people come to mastodon and why they (don't) stay.
To add my view here, I think there's fundamentally two ways of using microblogging:
• Peer-oriented
• Celebrity-oriented
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@aleph but if 1000 people follow the same person for insightful posts, then some of them are likely to start celebrity worshipping. And when that number grows to 10k or 100k, there's too many followers for that person to interact with, and without interaction the celebrity worshippers are more likely to stick around compared to non-worshippers.