@Six The follows bug was in the original post–second example. 
I responded about that one. Those _links fields shouldn’t be there and there is an open issue with the team. I’ll ask about the user->channel change.
@Six The follows bug was in the original post–second example. I responded about that one. Those _links fields shouldn’t be there and there is an open issue with the team. I’ll ask about the user->channel change.