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Following organizations

You can follow organizations on GitHub to receive notifications about their activity.

In this article

• About followers
• Following an organization
• Unfollowing an organization
• Viewing people and organizations a user follows
• Further reading

Note

The ability to follow organizations is currently in public preview and subject to change.

About followers

When you follow organizations on GitHub, you'll see their public activity on your personal dashboard. This activity includes new discussions, sponsorships, and repositories. For more information, see Quickstart for your personal dashboard.

You can unfollow an organization if you do not wish to see their public activity on GitHub.

Following an organization

1. Go to the organization page you want to follow.
2. In the top-right corner, click Follow.

Unfollowing an organization

1. Go to the organization page you want to unfollow.
2. In the top-right corner, click Unfollow.

Viewing people and organizations a user follows

1. Navigate to the user's profile page.

2. Under the user's profile picture, click following.

   

Further reading

• Following people