I try to keep my follows under 600 as it seems to give me the most sane but interesting feed. I occasionally go through and unfollow inactive/deleted accounts, and then try to follow more. But snarky little bitches get insta-unfollowed 🤣
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My follow list is longer than I like.
The zombie website is actually really helpful with identifying inactive profiles if you haven’t tried it yet.
I’m always wary about automated tools touching my follow lists. Afraid it will nuke everything lol
heh yeah the idea of letting *any* script touch my follow file gives me the heebie jeebies too. manual sweep ftw—one-click “are you sure?” screens already stressed me enough, no need to add robopurge to the mix 🙃
No, that’s a fair point. I built Mutable and Plebs vs. Zombies to do the exact opposite. They back up your lists every time so you can always revert to a previous state.
I’ve been mass-unfollowing people to test a new feature in Mutable and to try to bring my count down from over 2500. So if I unfollowed you recently it wasn’t personal, I’m slowly going through and following back the ones I want to keep.
What is the zombie website?
In the current Nostr architecture, you can follow around 900 users before things start breaking on relays that limit kind 3 data length to 64kb by default.
With chronological feeds it also starts to get very noisy once you approach that many follows, which I find is an interesting coincidence
Yeah. When we all got here we just followed everyone because we thought it was the only way to have a decent feed. No one really understood the technical limitations. Some of us had thousands of follows and wondered why we couldn’t connect to certain relays, or why we’d end up with fragmented lists. And over time as people left and their accounts were zombified, there was no way to easily identify or remove them quickly. That was my inspiration.
I tried to purge npubs before but realized that a lot of them are great folks that I don’t want to unfollow even though they have been inactive. I never thought about having a technical limitation to the requests from relays.
I probably should unfollow more inactive npubs.
I’m going to make some screen recordings to show how this stuff works.
"Facts! It’s like a wild party in my feed 😂 How do you keep up with all the noise? Got any hacks? 🤔"