Follower only have meaning if you know where they're coming from.
- no one is interested in followers if they are fake or bots;
- maybe you are a local pizza shop in Italy so you only care about followers from your town and you won't care if you have a million followers from Colombia, even if they are actual real people;
- a popular polemic public figure may have a ton of followers, but it might be useful to know which of these are sympathetic to their opinions and which ones are just following them for the outrage;
- insert other example here: ____________
Since I believe custom relays are the best way to segregate people (either by natural or by abstract communities, and of course for filtering outright sybil or spam) I also think NIP-45 HyperLogLog addition can fix that by pushing clients to rely on these aggregated counts merged from multiple relay sets instead of trusting one big centralized aggregator:
