Oddbean new post about login | logout Theres a limit to how many nostr pubkeys you can follow. and its 928. 👀
so now i will need to unfollow someone, to follow someone new, better be worth! 😂
What did 929 do to you 🥲
it breaks the relays and amethyst. performance plummets and notes are missing
👀 https://i.nostr.build/GB4Ht3ccp2itLfXl.jpg
whew, ur safe 😁
I remember seeing talk about issues when you follow more than “1000” npubs. What’s the issue with that specific number, 928?
its the number that makes amethyst work without relay errors
Probably your follow list doesn’t fit in most nostr relays. We have categorized people sets so using that you can “follow” as many people as a normal human would want.
It’s interesting and another way nostr has changed my social network usage. On Twitter and other networks it’s not out of the ordinary to follow thousands of accounts. Before even hearing about issues with relays and follow lists being too large, I noticed on nostr that once I got above 900 follows my feed got too noisy. I’ve tried to keep mine around 500-600-ish and that has worked out well. Good amount of my content in my feed, not too noisy.
its not the list itself, its clients struggling to batch their reqs.
this needs to scale with more self algo features/NIPs
It's possible to add more pubkeys to a filter by breaking it up into seperate connections. I ran into a similar issue when trying to filter 2 degree follows (follows plus their follows) and would create a new stream when it reached the max. However, I'm not sure what clients are doing around this case.
