Is there a way to establish how many followers you have? Damus shows wildly different numbers each time.
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Nope, you’ll never know the exact number
There's no reliable way to know. Would need stat aggregator apis
It’s kinda cool to not know 🤷♂️
You can even have followers on relays you don't post to. That is kind of another dimenson.
You can't do it on twitter 🤷♂️🤙
ikr, despite it showing that I apparently having 600 followers I actually have waaaay more, I’m actually super popular around these ends, it’s really like 10,000 but it doesn’t show… I’m super cool with it being faulty anyway🤷♂️🤙
Following this also 👏
From what I can tell, it has to do with relays going up and down. I’m on two paid relays and it has stabilized after about a week. I think the relays have some backend processes that have to archive the data for the users….but I could be completely wrong on this. I’d suggest getting on a few paid relays get off the free relays to see if it stabilizes.
The paid relays are pulling from the free relays so you shouldn’t lose any followers.
🤙🏻⚡️🧡💜🫂
Already have 5-6 paid relays. Also have some non paid. Should I remove those?
I would and see what happens. You can look at my profile, I have two paid relays and one filter from an existing paid relay. But my Damus status shows I’m pulling data from or connected to 7 relays.
You can always add them back if you think you’ve lost some contacts.
🤙🏻
Followed!
At least make sure you write to some public relays, doesn’t need to read from them. Relay management will get better and better in clients.
You got any public relays you’d recommend?
I don't have any recommendations, Blockcore Notes have a curated list of default relays, which I modify once in a while. Eventually with some optimizations, most users won't need that many relays, but when you contribute in threads like this, you'd want to ensure that events are written where those in the thread can see them.
Try seeing it in member.cash. That website shows the highest number I’ve seen and I use that as the benchmark
Prob wait for all the relays to send info
that is a feature 😁
follower count not meaningful...Zaps, now that is whole different mind-bending metrics.
add more relays,
from what i understand it only shows followers with shared relays.
I looked at your profile with Amethyst.
First look:
~ 600 Followers
After 3 Minutes:
Counting stopped by 2018 Followers
Waited 1 Minute:
2018
💜⚡️🤙
Not knowing followers is actually one of my favorite features of Nostr.
I also like that I have no way of telling whether or not someone follows me.
I just follow people because they provide value and have good stuff to share.
It was suggested to me that the following website is a good source of reliable info. Enter your pub key and it will tell you how many followers you have.
bookmarked this site! looks awesome!
I dont have any yet 😂
https://nostr.directory not sure how reliable it is.
The beauty of #nostr.
So if it says 7 followers on our profile that’s not a real a number?
I’m pretty sure that’s because of the infancy of the network, over time my guess is it will converge as the network builds.