dikaios1517 on Nostr: Right? Anyone would be able to inflate their follower count, unless it required some ...
Right? Anyone would be able to inflate their follower count, unless it required some signed proof from the person who followed you before you could add their npub as a verified follower.
Either way, it would all be unnecessarily complex and would still be just an approximation. Knowing how many people follow you really isn't important outside of an approximation anyway, and the current system is good enough for that.
Who you follow is WAY more important than who follows you. Any random npub can follow you, but who you follow, and who they follow, can be used to build web-of-trust based discovery tools and algorithms to surface content that is specifically catered to you. Likewise, to display your content to people who would be interested in seeing it.
Either way, it would all be unnecessarily complex and would still be just an approximation. Knowing how many people follow you really isn't important outside of an approximation anyway, and the current system is good enough for that.
Who you follow is WAY more important than who follows you. Any random npub can follow you, but who you follow, and who they follow, can be used to build web-of-trust based discovery tools and algorithms to surface content that is specifically catered to you. Likewise, to display your content to people who would be interested in seeing it.