the workflow we use for following accounts relies on sending the Follow message and then waiting for the Accept response before we actually record it in the activitypub.db file. We should record somewhere that we SENT a message so that we can reflect in the UI that you successfully sent a request, and then upgrade that when it's complete. This will also help us implement the "request to follow" flow properly on locked Mastodon accounts.
the workflow we use for following accounts relies on sending the Follow message and then waiting for the Accept response before we actually record it in the activitypub.db file. We should record somewhere that we SENT a message so that we can reflect in the UI that you successfully sent a request, and then upgrade that when it's complete. This will also help us implement the "request to follow" flow properly on locked Mastodon accounts.