To determine if someone is your follower you need to ask a relay for that persons follow list and check if you are on it. Maybe the relay doesn’t have the list, so you need to ask a different relay. So if you ask different relays you can get different answers depending how well that persons follow list has spread across relays.
Also I could follow you with my account and most apps would count it as a real follow, but if I create 10 fake accounts and follow you on those a good app would filter those out.
Fabian /
npub1n0…flahe
2025-04-24 02:43:03
in reply to nevent1q…nz4c
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2025-04-24 02:43:03Event JSON
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