if your two accounts are on a different instance, federation takes a while, your follow signals to your instance to synchronize the content from the other account, and it's not instantaneous, it's queued along the requests of everyone else on your instance.
this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2025
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alright then i'm not sure :')
That may be a federation issue. Are both accounts on the same instance?
Yes
Try again after following the account that post. Having someone from your instance following a remote user is the best way to insure proper federation of content in the fediverse.