Yeah. What Nostur tries to do is prevent other clients from completely wiping your follows (which is basically an epidemic) by comparing your latest saved follow list on the network with whatever it has stored locally. When it detects a difference, it prompts you to restore them, but it’s easy to accidentally restore a list that you didn’t want to if you made a lot of changes on another client first. There are other reasons why follow lists can get fragmented and become inconsistent across clients. What I did with Mutable is to let you snapshot a set of follows at any given time and back them up, so you can overwrite your list with the version you want. And if you didn’t manage to take a backup, it will just scrape the last one it can find from your relays before it was changed by another app.
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Basically there’s no way to prevent every client from mangling your lists, but keeping backups is a good defense against that when it happens.
Another app you can check out is Sidecar, which will warn you if you’re about to sign an event that will wipe some of your profile data. It’s only for desktop, not mobile, but is could definitely save you some headaches.


A Classy Nostr Signer — Sidecar
A NIP-07 Nostr signer with a built-in Lightning wallet, in your browser's side panel.