Cleaned up my follow list and found 3 things:

1) A few accounts marked as “old/deleted.” This is GREAT etiquette. Unfollowed old npubs, followed new if it was listed.

2) Several accounts with no activity for over a week. I assume they gave up on Nostr or moved to new npubs that I don’t have. Unfollowed.

3) SO MANY people playing the follow/unfollow game to boost their own follower count. Unfollowed for gross iNfLuEnCeR behavior 🤮

Also, follower ratio doesn’t matter here. Nobody even knows for sure how many followers you have because it changes so much 🤣

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#3. 🤢😂

Right? 😂 Like we’re all new here but you somehow have 100s of people following you while you boring af and only follow 13 of them back? Suuuuuure (cough cough..shitfluencer…cough cough) 😂

Influencers are special 🫂

Old habits die hard 😂🤙

Can’t stand influencer culture. *spit* plebs forever

Followed sir 🫡

A cool feature for a client would be to include an "inactive" tag on someone's npub or profile if they haven't been active in 30 days or so.

Would help with the cleaning up process 🤙

That would be awesome

Maybe "inactive" is too harsh a status/tag. But perhaps a "last note" date-time stamp would suffice.

Yea something like that would be helpful. Once it’s been a couple weeks I start to wonder if they abandoned that npub or lost their keys. No need to follow an account that will never be used again.

Agreed 🤙

Been hitting follow all, on my followers page so I'm following back. Will have to sort through them all too at some point as I've picked up a few E beggars too

Damus doesn’t have a follow all but that’s a cool feature! Yea I try to follow back people who engage back with me on posts. Once I’ve followed a couple hundred more then I go back through them to clean up.

Snort.social does so I drop in there periodically to use that feature

Good call 🤙

I try to clean up every so often as well.

Noticed that as well.

I think some of the worst offenders are the ones that say “I’ll pay sats to anyone who follows and reposts this.” It’s pretty obvious why they’re doing it. I’m happy to take their sats but I’ll unfollow fast af if they unfollow me 😂

Yeah for sure.

Some 🤡 last night was telling me i simp for sats because I engage the ⚡️threads to receive sats. Nostr is about sending and receiving sats. It’s fun and amplifies the ⚡️ network. I checked his account and it was all about how much sats he has and how receiving sats is beneath him.

The real simping is the sending sats for reposts and follows like you said. That to me is the garbage avenue to go.

I also unfollow the constant invoice requests with a heavy ratio of invoice to comments. I’m more than happy to send sats, but at the very least have some brain cells to engage.

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Better stay active Avi. #[2] is watching.

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Lol. Brain cells get zaps ⚡️💜🤙

Yes 🙌

The initial wave we had around Christmas was full of failed accounts.

A lot of the accounts I unfollowed was no activity for a month.

Your week cut off is a bit harsh. 🤣

I’m a 3 week cut off guy…

Usually I’m 2 weeks. But even if it’s only been 1 week and it’s someone I don’t engage with or see them post often, then I unfollow.

Yeah, it’s all quite variable to be fair. I should add that I balance it all with their content. If their posts are rare but golden then I stick with them.

💯 that’s the most important factor of all. If I like what you’re posting then I’ll follow you and never look back. Doesn’t matter if you follow me back.

Same here. So many little things. Even those with their own domains for nip-05 means they went through that process and shows a degree of conviction.

What is the follow/unfollow game? Many people are losing follows through no fault of their own, so they should be encouraged to follow them again. Nostrgram has a follow history tool now that makes this easy.

I know all my follows disappeared a couple days in and I had to manually re-add them from cache/history. A lot of people were bouncing between relays. I think we need in-app pushing/refreshing of profiles, relays and follows to a connected relays.

Maybe that could be part of it too. Maybe they’ve switched relays and I lost a contact.

I have 61, 24, 52 and 9

I just added one more to you. 57 from my view 🤣

I started unfollowing:

1. Most influencers who post 1-liners

2. Anyone who posts Twitter links

3. Anyone that posts giant messages bc Damus doesn’t have read more 😆 block them too for now sadly; even if content is great! Double sad.

The long posts are definitely tragic. Show more can’t come fast enough…

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Good criteria. And number 3 can’t be fixed quickly enough. I saw yesterday jb55 said he was working on it. Maybe in next build? 🤞

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or you could use other clients that have no issues with 2-3.

The first point is incurable except for @gtp3 😁

Prefer not to see any Twitter links.

3) might be a game for some but it’s also a reality that the following list gets overwritten and you need to do it to after the incident.

Has happened multiple times for me.

Yea true. I try to weigh those more on the value/quality of their posts or my engagement with them. If someone is interesting or we engage on even a semi-regular basis then that’s someone I want to keep following, even if they don’t follow me back. Some are a little more obvious because they were just buying followers in the first place “I’ll send sats to anyone who follows and reposts” and then they unfollow you 😂

Being outside of the whole game is so liberating. You just do what you do and the rest is not up to you, and couldn’t care less whether someone follow or not 😁

I miss lists so you can curate by topics who to follow since missing good notes is too easy with a huge firehose feed.

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Glad I didn’t get cut ☺️

Was just considering doing a round of cleanup.

I was hoping the follow/unfollow game wouldn't find its way here. When I was prompted to follow all accounts and saw that it was just 1100 or so, I followed everyone because I thought it was cool to connect with all of the early users. I was part of the dot com crowd in NYC in the late nineties and back then we were all just excited to connect. Similar vibe here that I hope sticks.

That’s been mostly the vibe here too. I love it 🙌 Starting to see a few who seem to be in it for the followers but I think by and large it’s still just people here who love Nostr and interacting with each other.

I hope so!

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I hope it's ok to take a one week break from nostr...

Lol 😂 yea 1 week may be too short. I still try to check if it was someone I normally see posting or interact with. Some were obvious they had just been testing Nostr. Only had a couple posts. No bio, etc.