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Someone created something to preserve follows nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft ? I haven’t used it..
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Ok, that's .... a wild tool. So it copies your kind-3 to kind-30001 if you so choose and then lets you replace your list with other lists but you can also use it to backup your list to later restore it.
While that is great and lets me as a power user of nostr use other clients with more peace of mind after doing the backup, I was more thinking of a service that reaches out to those potentially noobs who screwed up - after all it's publicly available information. To track and archive who follows whom would allow much more than only offer to recover old follows. It would allow to detect trends in the network.
I wish I had the time and resources to throw an LLM at the problem. So much data to play with.
Who made this?
When are we moving to atomic follows...?
You mean 2000 events for 2000 follows? I don't think that is efficient.
On the scale of events, think about how many events are created for each unique reaction. Would be orders of magnitude larger than for follow connections. I think a hybrid approach could be tenable where you have a list of all follows to it makes it easy for clients to display follow counts, but the ultimate source of truth are the atomic follows so a client bug can't rug you of all of your contacts.
I think clients will improve and key management will also improve. Browser extensions could detect when a replaceable event changes drastically and ask if that's ok for that kind or specifically handle kind3 or keep backups or ... there is a million possibilities but making the list of follows 5 times heavier is probably the worst approach.