Making a mistake all by yourself is not a bad thing because you know where it went wrong and you could avoid doing that again. However, if you have no idea what went wrong and you are just following a person, then if that person doesn't make you any money then you will stop following that person and follow another person.
Always learn to trade yourself, I would understand following others when you are a newbie, you could follow them until you learn yourself, but anyone who has been in crypto for over a month should be able to make their own decisions, if not then just buy bitcoin and you could make a profit that way without taking much risk.
You need to be someone who understand trading in order to understand why you made a mistake. When I first started out, if I traded and made a mistake then I wouldn't know what went wrong and why it went down.
This happened, it is a real story because I traded early on and I made some mistakes and it went low, and I went back to charts and try to find what was the mistake, I learned about trading and indicators and charts, I was learning to be fair, and when it went down I checked and it was exactly like what I should be checking and then suddenly it became a bit of a problem because I didn't know what to look at. So, you need to learn about it a bit before you can understand.