# Following creators

> Following is for creators, it is free, and it changes four things about what Reverie shows you.

Source: https://reverie.im/en/docs/community/following-creators
Language: en

You follow **creators**. Characters are favorited instead — the two are different systems, and there is no way to follow a character. Following is free, it is one-way, and there are no tiers: everyone who follows a creator gets the same thing.

## Following someone \[#following-someone]

On a creator's profile, **Follow**. The button then reads **Following**, and its menu holds **Unfollow**. Signed out, the button asks you to log in first.

Following costs nothing and sends no money. Paying a creator is a separate, deliberate act — see [Direct support](https://reverie.im/en/docs/creators/direct-support).

## What a follow actually gets you \[#what-a-follow-actually-gets-you]

| Effect                        | Where it shows up                                                                                                                                |
| ----------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| **Following feed**            | A tab on the creators page: **New from creators you follow**                                                                                     |
| **Following** sort            | On the character grid, alongside **Favorites** and **My Characters** — signed-in only                                                            |
| New-character and post alerts | A notification reading "published a new character" or "shared a new post", in the **Social** tab of the bell, and on push if you have it enabled |
| A nudge in **Recommended**    | On page one, a share of the slots is reserved for characters published in the last seven days by creators you follow                             |

Following can also unlock things a creator has gated:

* **Contact.** A creator can accept messages from followers only, in which case their profile tells you to follow them to continue. See [Messages](https://reverie.im/en/docs/creators/messages).
* **Bounties.** A bounty can require entrants to follow the creator who posted it. See [Bounties](https://reverie.im/en/docs/creators/bounties).

## Turning down the noise without unfollowing \[#turning-down-the-noise-without-unfollowing]

Once you follow someone, the bell beside **Following** opens **Notify me about**, with separate switches for **New characters** and **Posts**. Turning one off stops those notifications from that one creator and leaves everything else — the feed, the sort, the follower count — intact.

A creator who publishes several posts close together sends you one push; the rest arrive quietly in the bell.

This is per creator. There is no global switch for these alerts, but you can turn push off entirely under [Notifications](https://reverie.im/en/docs/account/notifications).

## Follower counts are public \[#follower-counts-are-public]

A creator's profile shows **Followers** and **Following** as numbers. The creators list can be sorted by **Most followed**, and filtered to **Following only** so you see just the people you already follow.

The creator is notified when you follow them. Nobody is told when you unfollow.

## Related \[#related]

* [Discovery](https://reverie.im/en/docs/community/discovery) — how the followed-creator reservation fits into ranking
* [Moments](https://reverie.im/en/docs/community/moments) — why you favorite characters rather than follow them
* [Direct support](https://reverie.im/en/docs/creators/direct-support) — the paid relationship, which following is not
* [Becoming a creator](https://reverie.im/en/docs/creators/becoming-a-creator) — being on the other end of a follow