@baralheia unfortunately I don't think the follow system is going to be changed... initially there was no opt-in system based on following, but fedi users freaked out at the dev and he had to institute this to make sure people can only be bridged if they want.
Personally I think that's hugely damaging to the utility of the bridge because that's basically limiting it to the %0.02 of users who are enabled and familiar enough to engage with the problem. That's totally ignoring the fact that a ton of instances have straight up blocked his, negating the bridge entirely.
It's really unfortunate because bridgy could have been amazing but somewhere along the line people forgot what federation was all about.