On GitHub it is possible that people can follow you. I wonder whether it is possible to prevent that some people can follow me.
I checked whether I can click on an "unfollow" button, but that is only possible if I am following somebody.
How to prevent that somebody can follow you on GitHub
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Related Solutions
Unfortunately not yet according to GitHub. The best I've found is to +1 and then follow (watch) the issue.
Screenshot on how to follow (watch) issues below.
After contacting GitHub support about this, here is what they responded me with :
Just to clarify things, I did a bit more digging and found that if you follow a user you will receive the following notifications:
- when they follow users
- when they star repositories
- when they fork or create a public repository
So it seems like you don't get notifications for every action they make. For that, you have to either:
- Check their public activity on their profile, or
- Watch a specific repo to get notifications for commits, etc.
While I understand that you would get tons of notifications if every action was displayed in the news feed, I'd like that we should at least have the control on which kind of notifications I want to see in my feed.
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Best Answer
It seems that this is only possible if you add a user to the blocked list in github.
https://github.com/settings/blocked_users
source: https://help.github.com/en/github/building-a-strong-community/blocking-a-user-from-your-personal-account