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Guy Swann · 161w
Ok I'm on iris.to right now and it seems to have the best indicators on messages for likes, replies, etc - but my follower count is way off. Curious why relays have such crazy diverging data on things...
Mike Dilger ☑️ profile picture
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 as many relays as you can, and then unique the authors returned. If you have 1000 followers, that's up to 1000 ContactLists returned PER-RELAY, and ContactLists can be very large events.

Gossip does not count this. Narcissists can use a command line tool from time to time to do this count. I have one that is unpublished, maybe I will publish it.
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jack · 161w
Follower count was def a mistake for us at Twitter Maybe not a mistake, but def changes everything
CensorThis · 161w
Couldn’t you ask for the system your calling from to compile it and then just pull the one number?
Stelar · 161w
Do we have the same difficulty with likes? Or with other things?
Stelar · 161w
When we search something isn't the system taking into account the follower count to push results from users with many followers on top?
Leo Fernevak · 161w
Experiment: 1. Deactivate public follower count. Private follower count could still be useful to see if there is growth or decline. 2. Display a count for shared/mutual follows when a logged in user views another account.
royaoid · 161w
relays could store a tally
Sashimi Sub · 159w
lol