[Capricorn2481]

You can literally go to a users profile and bookmark it. You are following them.

You cannot curate your feed on Facebook. You used to, sure. Now it's just whatever they give you.

[airstrike]

I am not following them in the social media sense if I don't get a feed of their activities. I can also bookmark people on X, and yet, there's a different "Follow" functionality. They are not the same thing.