I like when the reality of the protocol forces us to think about better ways to represent things like follow counts. Trying to copy centralized concepts is not going to work on a decentralized network...
Jb55, 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 account A to B to establish a following must be higher than 5000 sats ( example amount) and the Nostr client charges a zap fee ( to be a follower ) each time to prevent fake zapping chain and circle ( say 5% or fixed amount) and 3) optional ( maybe not necessary), the followed person should have a verified website linked to npub. This will help establish true trust. Nostr can do this to compete with X, YouTube, etc.
2) each zap amount to from account A to B to establish a following must be higher than 5000 sats ( example amount) and the Nostr client charges a zap fee ( to be a follower ) each time to prevent fake zapping chain and circle ( say 5% or fixed amount) and 3) optional ( maybe not necessary), the followed person should have a verified website linked to npub. This will help establish true trust. Nostr can do this to compete with X, YouTube, etc.