IMO, this does two things:
1. Reinforces that follower counts are officially useless and should be deprecated.
2. Underscores that we can only solve this at the edge; clients must get better at hiding the endless noise that bots create.
shawn / Shawn
npub1cl…upup9
2026-02-22 16:00:22 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…qaw5
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npub1clk6vc9xhjp8q5cws262wuf2eh4zuvwupft03hy4ttqqnm7e0jrq3upup9Published at
2026-02-22 16:00:22 UTCEvent JSON
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