Laeserin on Nostr: There is absolutely no statement of trust in most people's follows. Some of them just ...
There is absolutely no statement of trust in most people's follows. Some of them just follow everyone back, who follows them, with a script. Their follow lists are a hot mess.
I gave up on the whole concept, after getting sent pics and replies from people that were so vile, that the relay and media server admins had to delete them. Only to discover that they were being followed by some of my follows. Not to mention, all of the spam and scammers and imitators they follow. People's follow lists quickly grow so large, that they can't even examine them, in their entirety. Full of npubs that they know nothing at all about.
Also because the list kept getting wiped out and I discovered that nobody had bothered figuring out how to measure who you were interacting with; all they can do is restore a list. Mark Zuckerberg implemented the follow list in the 90s and a lot has happened, in computer science, since then.
Look at this Maria2000 npub, here. She (it?) interacts with about 10 npubs, but follows over 1000 of her nearest and dearest friends, that she has never once interacted with and whose stuff it doesn't actually consume, or who might not even be here, anymore, or who might have sold someone else their keys. Anyone who follows her is getting that entire crappy follow lists dumped into their relay, with the Seal of Approval from someone with nearly 3500 npubs (whoever or whatever they be).
I gave up on the whole concept, after getting sent pics and replies from people that were so vile, that the relay and media server admins had to delete them. Only to discover that they were being followed by some of my follows. Not to mention, all of the spam and scammers and imitators they follow. People's follow lists quickly grow so large, that they can't even examine them, in their entirety. Full of npubs that they know nothing at all about.
Also because the list kept getting wiped out and I discovered that nobody had bothered figuring out how to measure who you were interacting with; all they can do is restore a list. Mark Zuckerberg implemented the follow list in the 90s and a lot has happened, in computer science, since then.
Look at this Maria2000 npub, here. She (it?) interacts with about 10 npubs, but follows over 1000 of her nearest and dearest friends, that she has never once interacted with and whose stuff it doesn't actually consume, or who might not even be here, anymore, or who might have sold someone else their keys. Anyone who follows her is getting that entire crappy follow lists dumped into their relay, with the Seal of Approval from someone with nearly 3500 npubs (whoever or whatever they be).