I am trying my second client as a Nostr noob. It seems to have carried over follows but not likes as far as my UI is concerned.
Discussion
Which ones are you using?
Make sure you have the same relays
I have the same relays, and added some more.
For my prior client, when I added relays it kind of seemed like the client wasn’t even using those relays and was still using the first default relay. Got really slow.
It is faster now on this second client even with the same relays.
It seems like the dream of perfect interoperability between nostr clients probably won’t happen. Eg web browser incompatibility despite a clear specification.
I would expect that every client will be a separate product experience and we won’t see useful data portability for normies. Eg you need to use the same relays and make certain selections and configurations to use it, which will be too difficult for regular folks.
It will get better, growing pains
Likes are spotty, if you come back to the same note 12-24 hours later you’ll likely see a bunch not appear any more but if you check on nostr.band you’ll see truer numbers.
What happens when you add too many relays?
Adding a couple paid relays has been helpful as well in terms of overall performance.
Good
If you’re using Snort you have to enable likes. If you click on your profile, settings, enable reactions. 🤙🏼
Everything is carried ove: clients are (at least should) be stateless. That said, some clients render things in different ways or not at all, so things might appear different. 😉
and #[2] , yeah, getting your follow list overwritten is definitely a thing 😅
Try Iris.to