Nostr Web Client

It's good to clean your contact lists from time to time, remove old Nostriches that are no longer active, making room for new Nostriches to be added. Then, go find new Nostriches to follow!

What do I mean? Some clients and relays don't play nicely with very large contact lists. If you're follow 1000 npubs or even 1500 npubs, sometimes you may experience issues. Some clients and relays might truncate your contact list.

So, it's good to keep them clean. That's at least my philosophy.

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Leo Wandersleb 1y ago

I had asked for this several times. Great it exists now! I guess with my mere 340 follows I can leave it to others to test it out before letting it touch my follows list ;)

Does know about outbox or does it check on only some small set of popular relays? Does it preserve settings it doesn't understand? ...

For what it is so far ... is it open source? Is there a public issue tracker? In the mean time, some feedback:

* Improve the layout of the list. Some minor amount of style is cheap

* Start searching as soon as you know the npub

* Show "last active" next to each account

* Sort accounts from longest inactivity (no activity ever?) to most recent activity

* Provide a checkbox with each

* Provide a "check all older than x months" button

* Provide info of relays that were checked

* If the profile could not be found, assume you didn't find the right relay to check and don't offer to remove it unless opted in.

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Derek Ross 1y ago

I have used this tool before, but it's definitely broken for me now. It gave me numerous false positives. Maybe the outbox model is part of the issue? Who knows?

https://github.com/captain-stacks/nostr-graveyard

Leo Wandersleb 1y ago

Well, it helped me unfollow some 5 accounts but I wouldn't blindly trust it to unfollow in bulk. Will add the feature requests to the repo.

captain ☦️ 1y ago

Thanks for the feature requests! Which one would be the most helpful?

Leo Wandersleb 1y ago

I opened issues for all on the repo but have no special commitment to favor one over the other. I dared clicking unfollow on primal for those 5 I unfollowed but checked for note and reply count and last activity there first, too. All that to me was important when unfollowing as I don't follow lightly so for a low-churn follow list, your(?) bulk feature might not be for me ever.

captain ☦️ 1y ago

Yeah that feature is mostly to help people who have followed hundreds of inactive profiles. There will be false positives, but I save them in a list to mitigate that. The "graveyard" list is useful besides with false positives because it lets you see if anyone came back from the grave.

I'll try to work on improving the situation with false positives by not relying on a hard coded list of relays. I can also add a button or checkbox next to individual profiles to selectively unfollow and simultaneously add to the graveyard list.

It's great to hear feedback, and I'm glad to hear people are using this tool!

Leo Wandersleb 1y ago

The tool does not make clear that you actually store a graveyard list somewhere. Where do you store it? On my relays or yours? If on mine, which list do you use as there are at least 3 standards.

captain ☦️ 1y ago

More action items:

- explain what the graveyard list is

- use the user's relay selection

- figure out which list standard to use

elsat 1y ago

Check nostr:npub1lqs30x7466guvx6r2cek8z9d4hpucycy7j08wx58cwx70m206q3qrscejr ‘s tool

https://unfollow.yeghro.site/

Leo Wandersleb 1y ago

Well ... the other tool looks better and shows profile pictures and works with npub instead of hex ... but both look very rudimentary. Where the above tool excels is the graveyard list. I'm not sure your tool stores the removed users to some list.