Surely this can be improved with a indexed, purpose built relay for follow lists. It doesn't matter what you think of the concept. People still want to know their follow count. It's not a centralized concept to want to gauge your reach.
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Yes indexers are fine for this, but its hard to make core client features depend on single specialized servers which don’t have a spec. This is just asking for your app to stop working eventually. I try to avoid that as much as I can in damus.
People can also spam contact lists and fake the count (primal shows me as 1 million followers when it’s probably more like 200k), so i’m not sure if it will ever be accurate. I don’t like lying to users.
I totally understand that