My thoughts: UI don't really care about my follower count. On a censorship resistant network you have no way to know how many of them are unique people that actually see what you say. And if what I have to say is interesting to a dozen people, I'm happy.

Follow counts though... If someone follows more people than they could possibly read, it means them following me means nothing. They're probably never going to see anything I say, and it means they don't really care to. Following me isn't about seeing what I say to those people, it's about me thinking they like me for some reason. If you follow so many people that you can't possibly read what they all said on the last 24 hours on, say, 30 minutes, you're either terminally online or you don't actually read what they say. Best case scenario your signal to noise ratio is probably horrible. I like people with low follow counts.