Replying to Avatar Leo Wandersleb

I'm very picky about who I follow and really try hard to avoid following impersonators or bots and one heuristic I would like to use is "follows of my follows" but I have not yet come across any client that would filter the followers by my own follows or at least put them first and highlight them. Some clients sort serach results by followers but fullowers is such a flawed metric unless those followers are my own hand-picked follows.

How do the more paranoid among you decide who to follow?
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Chad Lupkes 1y ago

I set my feed to Latest with Replies, and watch for people whose responses I appreciate. And I see others do the same because when my own notes get shared I'll see who likes, reshares or zaps those notes and see if they are someone I want to follow.

Slow and labor intensive? Yes. But 100X better than any algorithm suggestions.

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Leo Wandersleb 1y ago

Well, I guess we all do this more or less but I feel that makes me susceptible to following LLM bots as it's easy to produce relatable notes if you know the target audience. Maybe there is already hundreds of zap farming accounts run by some dude and his LLM.