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π•Ύπ–Šπ–— π•Ύπ–‘π–Šπ–Šπ–•π–ž | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 @Ron Stoner proved that it could be gamed

He’s prob the only one in that list that will admit to gaming it 

everyone else either is oblivious to it happening or doing it themselves 

i for a fact know my follower count was tampered with bc of the huge spike it did alongside a select few others in a short short time span of 2-3 weeks
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Derek Ross | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 Right. He made 4M npubs. Right around that time nostr:nprofile1qqsr9cvzwc652r4m83d86ykplrnm9dg5gwdvzzn8ameanlvut35wy3gpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq3qamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wwa5kuegpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqcu9929 shot up a lot too, so I would have guessed that Ron or someone else used bots to mass follow will then too.

Everyone else has slowly been consistently rising for a year. But this is besides the point. My point is that it's a shitty metric that so many people are concerned with.
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π•Ύπ–Šπ–— π•Ύπ–‘π–Šπ–Šπ–•π–ž | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Absolutely it’s even a shittier metric knowing that it’s gamed n faked as well

This will really turn someone’s whole brain upside down when they come from other social medias πŸ˜‚ they’re gonna be like wait what ? no rat race?? what do i do!?
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starnold | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 The only signal on nostr is freedom
Every other metric, whether followers or zap counts, is noise