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 This is what I see from Damus https://i.nostr.build/PO6k4.jpg  
 Higher than Stella 🚀🚀 
 I'm always talking to the same 10 people. 🤷‍♀️  
 Same. It seems like many enjoy it 🥳 
 I also think there’s a lot of npub tourism (active 1-3 months then leave/ retire that npub) 
 Yeah, it's like I'm dragging a bunch of dead npubs behind me. That must be how some people have 100k+ followers, but only about twice as much interaction as I do.
Mine probably doesn't have as many dead npubs because it's just not as old.

The stats would be so much more interesting, if they only contained npubs that had been active within 3 months. 
 it's such a rich vein of data to analyse for all kinds of reasons... it's gonna be interesting to see as people start to build good analytics 
 Stats at different time intervals would be interesting

I think the 100k+ followers comes partly because they’re celebrities from twitter and partly because of the trending circle jerk 
 Yeah, but I'm like... How have there been 100k people here? 🤷‍♀️😂

Feels like a little clique. 
 Doesn’t every new npub follow a set of npubs (if you use certain clients)? You can get to 100k+ easily in 2 years 
 Took me 6 months to get to 4k. 😂🙈 
 Agreed but we’re not celebrities 🤷🏾‍♂️ 
 It should have read: “you can get to 100k+ easily if you’re a celebrity” 
 Doesn’t change anything in the end though 🤷🏾‍♂️ 
 Well, it means that people aren't staying long enough to find npubs that aren't celebrities. 
 Or that they don’t unfollow the default list. But yes I agree there’s a lot of npub tourism 
 Welcome to nostr where the followers count is always wrong.

https://image.nostr.build/8928a1e577c9ef30f5ed53b53c89867b15c483c0a6f6a459e02ac2c289da32ea.jpg 
 We’re not connected to the same relays at all. Might expkain some of the difference (follows are stored on relays) 
 Yeah, that's mostly a question of relay selection. 
 Following
    467
    Updated 1h

Followers
    274

That is what my Nostrudel shows. 
 oi! where do you get nostrudel to actually count them up? when i click on profile/followers tab i have to count rows and columns 
 It's on the profile page. Have to unclap the horizontal tab. 
 mine shows zero followers

must be a thing in next

i can shortcut counting them by just selecting them all and pasting into gedit, each follower has a number and so i scroll down and see i have 607 according to my relays 
 Yeah, the next followers is way off. 
 This is what I see on Nostur. At the beginning it stalls around 500 but then it rises to https://i.nostr.build/8G8ea.jpg  
 @trosso19 the only one we have in common is the mutiny blastr. Seems like it’s doing a lot of heavy lifting 🫡 
 That's weird, I see us having a bunch of relays in common. Nos.lol, bitcoiner.social, damus.io, etc 
 Interesting. This is what I see on Damus, for your relays. I see 6 https://i.nostr.build/lLqnw.jpg  
 I’m not connected to bitcoiner social 
 I guess the follower count isn’t the only thing that’s inaccurate 
 This is what I see on #amathyst. Hoping someone who understands outbox can explain lol
https://image.nostr.build/b6e9b16ced5b6073c0c9777164239dbdd3690b3c990cde0ad2832e1831d02365.jpg 
 Ah you’re using outbox. I guess that explains why there’s a missmatch between what I see and what you see. The mutiny blastr is the only one you need for us to connect 😂