diff --git a/web/components/follow-fold-button.tsx b/web/components/follow-fold-button.tsx
index f394aae9..6649aad8 100644
--- a/web/components/follow-fold-button.tsx
+++ b/web/components/follow-fold-button.tsx
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import clsx from 'clsx'
 import { Fold } from '../../common/fold'
-import { useFollowingFold } from '../hooks/use-fold'
+import { useFollowedFolds } from '../hooks/use-fold'
 import { useUser } from '../hooks/use-user'
 import { followFold, unfollowFold } from '../lib/firebase/folds'
 
@@ -8,7 +8,11 @@ export function FollowFoldButton(props: { fold: Fold; className?: string }) {
   const { fold, className } = props
 
   const user = useUser()
-  const following = useFollowingFold(fold, user)
+
+  const followedFoldIds = useFollowedFolds(user)
+  const following = followedFoldIds
+    ? followedFoldIds.includes(fold.id)
+    : undefined
 
   const onFollow = () => {
     if (user) followFold(fold.id, user.id)
diff --git a/web/hooks/use-active-contracts.ts b/web/hooks/use-active-contracts.ts
index 67bb8574..0bd099e2 100644
--- a/web/hooks/use-active-contracts.ts
+++ b/web/hooks/use-active-contracts.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import _ from 'lodash'
+import { useRef } from 'react'
 
 import { Fold } from '../../common/fold'
 import { User } from '../../common/user'
@@ -50,8 +51,11 @@ export const useActiveContracts = (
     )
   )
 
-  const followedFoldSlugs =
-    followedFoldIds === undefined ? undefined : followedFolds.map((f) => f.slug)
+  // Save the initial followed fold slugs.
+  const followedFoldSlugsRef = useRef<string[] | undefined>()
+  if (followedFoldIds && !followedFoldSlugsRef.current)
+    followedFoldSlugsRef.current = followedFolds.map((f) => f.slug)
+  const initialFollowedFoldSlugs = followedFoldSlugsRef.current
 
   const tagSet = new Set(
     _.flatten(followedFolds.map((fold) => fold.lowercaseTags))
@@ -97,5 +101,10 @@ export const useActiveContracts = (
     (contract) => commentsByContract[contract.id] ?? []
   )
 
-  return { activeContracts, activeBets, activeComments, followedFoldSlugs }
+  return {
+    activeContracts,
+    activeBets,
+    activeComments,
+    initialFollowedFoldSlugs,
+  }
 }
diff --git a/web/hooks/use-fold.ts b/web/hooks/use-fold.ts
index 2bbe6e23..683b364a 100644
--- a/web/hooks/use-fold.ts
+++ b/web/hooks/use-fold.ts
@@ -2,11 +2,11 @@ import { useEffect, useState } from 'react'
 import { Fold } from '../../common/fold'
 import { User } from '../../common/user'
 import {
-  getFollowedFolds,
   listenForFold,
   listenForFolds,
   listenForFoldsWithTags,
   listenForFollow,
+  listenForFollowedFolds,
 } from '../lib/firebase/folds'
 
 export const useFold = (foldId: string | undefined) => {
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ export const useFollowedFolds = (user: User | null | undefined) => {
         setFollowedFoldIds(JSON.parse(followedFoldJson))
       }
 
-      getFollowedFolds(user.id).then((foldIds) => {
+      return listenForFollowedFolds(user.id, (foldIds) => {
         setFollowedFoldIds(foldIds)
         localStorage.setItem(key, JSON.stringify(foldIds))
       })
diff --git a/web/lib/firebase/folds.ts b/web/lib/firebase/folds.ts
index d1170565..7ca4e912 100644
--- a/web/lib/firebase/folds.ts
+++ b/web/lib/firebase/folds.ts
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import {
   deleteDoc,
   doc,
   getDocs,
+  onSnapshot,
   query,
   setDoc,
   updateDoc,
@@ -201,3 +202,20 @@ export async function getFollowedFolds(userId: string) {
   )
   return foldIds
 }
+
+export function listenForFollowedFolds(
+  userId: string,
+  setFoldIds: (foldIds: string[]) => void
+) {
+  return onSnapshot(
+    query(collectionGroup(db, 'followers'), where('userId', '==', userId)),
+    (snapshot) => {
+      if (snapshot.metadata.fromCache) return
+
+      const foldIds = snapshot.docs.map(
+        (doc) => doc.ref.parent.parent?.id as string
+      )
+      setFoldIds(foldIds)
+    }
+  )
+}
diff --git a/web/pages/home.tsx b/web/pages/home.tsx
index ffadaf2a..4a91fd59 100644
--- a/web/pages/home.tsx
+++ b/web/pages/home.tsx
@@ -37,8 +37,12 @@ const Home = (props: {
 }) => {
   const user = useUser()
 
-  const { activeContracts, activeBets, activeComments, followedFoldSlugs } =
-    useActiveContracts(props, user)
+  const {
+    activeContracts,
+    activeBets,
+    activeComments,
+    initialFollowedFoldSlugs,
+  } = useActiveContracts(props, user)
 
   if (user === null) {
     Router.replace('/')
@@ -52,11 +56,11 @@ const Home = (props: {
           <FeedCreate user={user ?? undefined} />
           <Spacer h={6} />
 
-          {followedFoldSlugs !== undefined &&
-            followedFoldSlugs.length === 0 && (
+          {initialFollowedFoldSlugs !== undefined &&
+            initialFollowedFoldSlugs.length === 0 && (
               <FastFoldFollowing
                 user={user}
-                followedFoldSlugs={followedFoldSlugs}
+                followedFoldSlugs={initialFollowedFoldSlugs}
               />
             )}