Alex Gleason on Nostr: On the protocol level follows don’t exist at all. A user can save a contact list: ...
On the protocol level follows don’t exist at all. A user can save a contact list: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/02.md
Client devs interpreted this to mean following. (That means if you follow 1000 people and then follow your 1001st, it sends 1001 pubkeys in a single event to relays… lol)
So you can easily see who you follow. But to figure out who follows you, we have to query for Kind 3 events which mention you in their p tags. That’s why the “followers” counter in Iris fills up as you sit there looking on the page, for very large accounts.
Client devs interpreted this to mean following. (That means if you follow 1000 people and then follow your 1001st, it sends 1001 pubkeys in a single event to relays… lol)
So you can easily see who you follow. But to figure out who follows you, we have to query for Kind 3 events which mention you in their p tags. That’s why the “followers” counter in Iris fills up as you sit there looking on the page, for very large accounts.