Oddbean new post about login | logout This has led to npub follow lists full of spammy npubs. Anytime someone generates an npub, the npubs currently trending (or whatever metric they're using) get a new npub. Effect is the same as follow bots. Example: nostr:nprofile1qqsqtgsf9l63f966pkwre78lq4t43y6pxfnnnym4d83j68nlyw4y3aspzdmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ue0qythwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnswf5k6ctv9ehx2ap0qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj77clz29 nostr:nevent1qqswsryg0j2eh89e5uy5ruwvpydwaewhd30tspgsxaww39j6yzrlm6qn49spd
This is what my followers list currently looks like. I wanted to look to see who was following me, so that I could follow back, and now I have to wade through all this crap coming from public relays. https://i.nostr.build/AyIYyU3lemzHO9Ef.jpg
Woah crazy. I don’t even bother looking at my follower list, I figure it’s mostly just bots anyways.
Probably is. I'm thinking follow count only says anything concrete, if you only look at private/paid relays. That's my current workaround, at any rate.
Figuring out a reliable way to actually check that stat would help nostr, i know devs made a bunch of follow bots back in the day and boosted people’s numbers for the lols to demonstrate its brokenness
I just downloaded Primal and created a new npub, selected that I was interested in Bitcoin, Finance, and Nostr, and this is my immediate follow list. FOLLOW LISTS FOR NEW NPUBS SHOULD ONLY CONTAIN THAT SAME NPUB. https://next.nostrudel.ninja/#/u/npub1kljyrm0svtj94q2fgqquy62ap76glale03v27snq6f9wvxztq3dq28hh0z/following
If I select all of the categories, this is who my new npub is following. Apparently, this isn't the only client doing the autofollowing because myself and hardly anyone I regularly interact with is listed (The list is incredibly myopic; no wonder people think we only talk about Bitcoin!), but we're being autofollowed by someone. https://next.nostrudel.ninja/#/u/npub1gq7nv4t3ucnyy0fqsxv40rrfce89ay3z34a5mv75wafsyamy7w6sjaqrjr/following
Try clicking this link, going to the profile, and select "Login as npub". You will see that this generated feed has one main topic. Everyone onboarding, right now, is seeing nothing but that. This is actually much much worse than their trending feed. nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzphtxf40yq9jr82xdd8cqtts5szqyx5tcndvaukhsvfmduetr85ceqydhwumn8ghj7argv4nx7un9wd6zumn0wd68yvfwvdhk6tcpr3mhxue69uhhg6r9vd5hgctyv4kzumn0wd68yvfwvdhk6tcqyraxpljdm67lnzp5n8vhqu6f7k84547gp4h8eyv2jkxf4u0yma7djd3aqds
Been saying this since they first Released, and people chewed me up, but I don't care hahahahaa its the circle jerk crew with thousands of followers only. They always say the little guy is hating hahahahaha
I didn't even realize that they were doing auto-follows. That explains why we have so many npubs with tens or hundreds of thousands of followers.
Yup. Them cheaters hahaha 😆
No exposure for the little guys and they want us to push primal hahahahah 😆 i will always refer to them as the circle jerk crew 🤷🏽♀️
Damus only auto-follows the Damus account I believe which is fair (you want updates from the app you use)
I'm only talking about personal accounts, not adminstrative/company ones.
