My account follows some users and organizations out of nowhere

[etherealxx]

Describe the bug

I just made an account and suddenly i'm following several users and organizations? I didn't do that. I got notification from people i "follow" when i didn't follow anyone at all. All i do is just follow some tags and that's it, i expects to follow just the tags, not the people

Are these organizations sponsors the project so that new user will automatically follows them? There's no notice about that.

To Reproduce

• Make a new account (in this case i use github)
• Wait a day, see if there's a notification from people you don't follow

Expected behavior

• I only follow people when i decide to, not automatically

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS, version: Windows 11 23H2
• Browser, version: Vivaldi 7.0.3495.15

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