Great pickup thanks. Yours and semisols note would both point to large follower counts being junky. Prefer high engagement to high counts IMO.
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This. Ignore follow counts, pay attention to engagement 👍
Follows are a legacy metric that doesn't mean anything in Nostr, but clients won't remove it because inflooencers need it to justify their sponsorships, and the clients are unlikely to fix it because they need to have the illusion of higher user numbers to get more funding.
Also check this out.
Here's how I hit 1 million followers.
https://ron.stoner.com/I_Gained_1_Million_Followers_in_24_Hours/
Key takeaways:
- over half the Nostr listed relays are using some sort of spam mitigation technique(s)
- the attack was still achieveable
- socal media is easily manipulated
- follower counts and engagement are worthless
- content is the real treasure
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Fun. Will read!