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Mike Dilger ☑️ · 160w

gossip and morespeech are the graphical desktop clients I'm aware of. As for follower count, it is expensive and unreliable to compute. You need to ask for every ContactList that includes you, from ...

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Follower count was def a mistake for us at Twitter

Maybe not a mistake, but def changes everything

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nostrich · 160w

Same as zaps are for nostr Changes the dynamic around tipping Becomes a proxy for quality of content, which can be gamed with wash-zaps

I would love to hear more context on this. Like, what behaviors did you see (was it more of a problem of bots/spam or just fixation on "being popular").

nopara73 · 160w

How Twitter Gamifies Communication - C. Thi Nguyen https://philpapers.org/archive/NGUHTG.pdf

Sovereign · 160w

Follower count created a tool that could be weaponized — huge psyop in being manipulated by group think — humans innately want to move with and be a part of the crowd

And that's in a context where you can ACTUALLY count followers. You can't actually count followers for real in nostr.