Due to needing to download the follow list of each person who follows you, or?…
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you could create random contact lists with 1000 pubkeys on it and continually spam follow notifications.
I guess this is where the social graph would be useful. Only show a follower notification if the person following is within your social graph up to X tier specified.
We have this same social graph feature in Nestr for sorting replies underneath threads and filtering out spam replyguy posts.