Tried amethyst, then when I opened Damus I was no longer following anyone, doesn’t look like I dropped any relays, now manually re-following people
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Happens a lot unfortunately when switching platforms. No idea why it happens. I have less than half of my followers on Amethyst than I do on snort.social and I have no idea why that is
He's talking about follows, not followers.
Yeah, followers, follows doesn't matter. I've lost both. Both have the same issue of being wiped when switching clients.
Nope.
They're completely different cases.
- Follows list exists as part of your own user metadata. The wiping problem happens when a client update the metadata with a blank list because it has not get previously the correct list.
- Followers list doesn't exist as a list per-se. The client builds it up from reading every follows-list from other users metadata, and getting the ones that has your pubkey. That's why it varies quite a lot depending from which relays those users are read.
Thanks, this was the answer I was looking for, manually followed a bunch of peeps again, gonna hold off on experimenting with new clients for a bit.
Good to know, thx 👍
I think there are 2 different data for a user:
Meta data: contains user name, lud16 address etc
Contact list: contains relays and follows.
So if you update your relay list when you don't have your follows synced, this might cause the problem.
I have not used Damus, but have used two Amethyst and Iris and at least 3 web clients, frequently at the same time. Have not lost any data between them yet that i know of.
I guess any client can misbehave if it has your private key. I would suspect Amethyst. It might have had some cache which it published thinking it was the only client. Dunno.
Hey Matt, check my ‘Following’ list, should save you some time.
Oh hey, you used to follow me. Remember?
Amethyst was a terrible experience for me. Trying Iris on android -- seems way less buggy