mleku on Nostr: the most logical solution for follow list hell would be shifting the storage of ...
the most logical solution for follow list hell would be shifting the storage of follow lists to a consensus driven data system, so you can just add and remove instead of blasting out the new version every 5 seconds as you click follow on a thread with a hell client that enables insta-following
or a modification of the "replaceable events" protocol that allows you to just send a change that is +/- pubkey each time and that the database keeps them together and prunes off the outdated data
it's a problem that probably nobody wants to deal with but it has a nasty collision with the limitations of websockets and the inefficiency of hexadecimal encoded pubkeys
in fact, you could just add a add/remove protocol to this it just means that searching for this kind of event has to be exhaustive like a bitcoin utxo provenance verification (which is most of what the processing in initial block download is for)
or a modification of the "replaceable events" protocol that allows you to just send a change that is +/- pubkey each time and that the database keeps them together and prunes off the outdated data
it's a problem that probably nobody wants to deal with but it has a nasty collision with the limitations of websockets and the inefficiency of hexadecimal encoded pubkeys
in fact, you could just add a add/remove protocol to this it just means that searching for this kind of event has to be exhaustive like a bitcoin utxo provenance verification (which is most of what the processing in initial block download is for)