It’s a question I see a lot and it’s very different than how we expect it to work coming from traditional.

When you try to get your “followers” on nostr, your client queries all the relays you are connected to and aggregates the responses. Some clients do this better than others. For users with lots of followers, forcing your client to calculate the number multiple times will often return wildly different results. If a popular relay goes down for a few hours, many will see their follower counts change significantly.

In addition, different relays have different limits on the amount of data they will return to you when you make a request. If you have more followers then they return records, you could miss out on many from that delay.

My takeaway is that it’s not a very useful metric on nostr and as long as you are reaching the same relays, your followers are reading your content.

With all that being said, we just made an increase to our max limit so try again and you should see a higher amount than before (simply returning more data that was already there).

Lastly, ignore the number it’s meaningless garbage :)

Apologies if this is full of typos my brain is melted from a day of bug smashing.