That, and any other number of reasons. I see no benefit of pumping follower counts. If it is a useless metric, why feed it?
What is a good reason for not having private follows, in addition to public ones?
Ryan
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2025-04-06 17:24:27
in reply to nevent1q…0q2v
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2025-04-06 17:24:27Event JSON
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