Nope.

They're completely different cases.

- Follows list exists as part of your own user metadata. The wiping problem happens when a client update the metadata with a blank list because it has not get previously the correct list.

- Followers list doesn't exist as a list per-se. The client builds it up from reading every follows-list from other users metadata, and getting the ones that has your pubkey. That's why it varies quite a lot depending from which relays those users are read.

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Thanks, this was the answer I was looking for, manually followed a bunch of peeps again, gonna hold off on experimenting with new clients for a bit.

I'm trying to make sure I understand. Did you follow some users in Amerhyst before it had a chance to pull your current list of follows from the network?

Why would you hold off? Just use other nyms when exploring new clients.

Good to know, thx 👍

I think there are 2 different data for a user:

Meta data: contains user name, lud16 address etc

Contact list: contains relays and follows.

So if you update your relay list when you don't have your follows synced, this might cause the problem.

When I said 'user metadata ' I was referring not just to the kind-0 event but also to the contact-list on kind-3 events, relay-list or similar.

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