clients are not meant to trust relays in any way, i don’t see how you could even trust follow counts from relays in the outbox model.
You of course have a trusted index, but indexers abuse those to promote their friends
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Followers count doesn’t need to be trusted, accurate, or complicated.
but the way Damus force user to click “Download Follower” is just ugly. Saving/caching integer value locally doesnt cost that much but yet intuitive in UX perspective
yes its planned in nostrdb, as well as cached wot scores based on incoming contact lists. Like i said its the best you can do, other than hyperloglog counts