if you add some time windows to those lists, starting from now and going backwards in small bits you probably can aggregate a much more complete list of what is available on the relay

the filter protocol has no pagination and the results limits are pretty skimpy, and follow lists themselves are absurdly large and there is a connection between why those limits are high and the size of those stupid snapshot style events... i'm sure some day it's eventually gonna be obvious it should be a CRDT with add and remove one by one, then these numbers would actually come out with much better confidence and easier to scale the time window to catch everything in between....

it's gonna take time for people to figure out how to do it and it's gonna take time for the telegram using inner circle of devs to finally concede they need to add a new follow/unfollow event