Yes indexers are fine for this, but its hard to make core client features depend on single specialized servers which don’t have a spec. This is just asking for your app to stop working eventually. I try to avoid that as much as I can in damus.
People can also spam contact lists and fake the count (primal shows me as 1 million followers when it’s probably more like 200k), so i’m not sure if it will ever be accurate. I don’t like lying to users.
jb55 / Will
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2024-09-05 13:01:16
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2024-09-05 13:01:16Event JSON
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