He's talking about follows, not followers.
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Yeah, followers, follows doesn't matter. I've lost both. Both have the same issue of being wiped when switching clients.
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.
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.
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.