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Laeserin | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 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
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Laeserin | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 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
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Laeserin | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 They had so many topics to choose from, that it leaves the completely false impression that your feed will be much more diverse, if you select more topics.

But nope.
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Deleted account | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 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
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Laeserin | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 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.
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Deleted account | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Yup. Them cheaters hahaha 😆
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Deleted account | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 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 🤷🏽‍♀️
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Laeserin | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 It's like they're trying to protect newbies from seeing our accounts. 🤣
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semisol | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 Damus only auto-follows the Damus account I believe which is fair (you want updates from the app you use)
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Laeserin | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Client account is fair game, agree.
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Laeserin | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 I'm only talking about personal accounts, not adminstrative/company ones.
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semisol | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Oh yeah. Well, welcome to Primal, primitive and stuck in the age of legacy social media ideology. 🙃