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elsat · 95w
Primal has an indexing service that aggregates top 300? relays, whereas on damus your follower count is populated by counting followers only on the relays you have listed.
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you can’t really fetch follower count on the nostr protocol. its a centralized concept. damus does its best, but relays have limits to the amount of data it can do in a single query.

nostrdb should be able to improve this but it will still be tricky and require lots of data storage because contact lists are changing all the time, not to mention people can spam fake contact lists , why is probably why it says I have 1 million followers which is definitely fake/wrong.
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FreeWorld · 95w
We can define a follower by money ( zaps) . Money shows true interest. If a follower follows a person and zaps that person ( for example zap amount bigger than equal 5000 sats) . We can expand this concept of levels of “followness” with different amount of zaps ( say 10000 sats level 1, etc.) , ...
FreeWorld · 95w
Define a follower by amount of money ( zap) will weed out the bot accounts. To prevent fake and manipulation by zapping around and passing around zaps: I propose we do this: 1) only count followers on highly respected and trusted Nostr clients( by Nostr community) , 2) each zap amount to from accou...