Would love to understand why losing all your follows is so common on Nostr. Seems that multiple clients are affected. Any ideas #[3]? (Didn’t experience it with #[4] btw)
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It's a complicated issue but pretty nicely explained in a recent podcast (a 3min snippet from it 👇).
tldr: an incomplete contact list gets to become the most recent among relays and this is the result (the nostr protocol does not have a "single truth" so relays and clients cannot be sure what's the latest/best version easily).
https://share.snipd.com/snip/a4b5f33a-0b50-485a-9ffe-1c2bc7ab3efc
Happened to me today. Lost all my follows, rebuilding slowly.
#[3] were you able to restore using Nostrgram + Alby, without pasting your nsec directly into Nostrgram? (That didn't work for me)
Nope. Did you try https://github.com/fiatjaf/nos2x ?
Nope. Will try that next time definitely 👍