You probably also lost your relays list. It’s possible that one of your old relays may still have your old following list (a kind:3 event that hasn’t been updated).
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Ah i see that you were able to recover it! 👏🏻👍🏻 How’d you do it?
I just added manually many ppl following me and added many more well known ppl that I was missing. I was following around 300 people so still missing a lot.