Those are fine choices, but you must realize you're choosing tradeoffs. not following / no zaps - these choices mean certain UX dimishments. Which is fine if that's what you want (we all choose tradeoffs in our technologies for various reasons).
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Nah. People developing curation systems that don't make sense are trying to force tradeoffs on me. I'm just gonna run trustworthy npubs and systems that don't work will not recognize my npubs as trustworthy and systems that work well will be good at recognizing my npubs as trustworthy.