I can't believe Mastodon has had completely arbitrary follower counts determined by whoever is serving the profile all these years:
So basically on Mastodon each user can basically pick a number and decide that's it and the entire network will just accept it -- or perhaps "question it", but just accept it most of the times.
And people say Mastodon is better than Nostr or has "solved" that side of the UX while Nostr is awful because follower counts are different depending on how you look.
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There was a great blog post that touched on this:
They served a file for “followers” and set it to an arbitrary number.

Justin Garrison
Mastodon instance with 6 files
How to make a single user, publish only, mastodon instance with four json files and two pictures
Did not know that 😂.
A proximity metric, based on your follows, could be more useful. Similar idea to "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" however between you and them.
boooh. another surprise from COMMIE SOCIAL NETWORK
WTF 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
Outrageous. The main problem that Mastodon suffers from is its lack of nips.
I get it now. That mean mastodon is good.
Every time thing get attack that mean there are something precious in it.
later.
Its an admin. He own the server, can mod all files, erase what he want. This is not an issue -_-".
Whats the deal with this? I've only been on mastodon a few times but it was actually full of commies, climate alarmists, etc. Is there a reason for this?
It's not an issue for the admin.
niche. as bitcoiners are comming to nostr, commies are going do mastodon.
USSR has fallen by themselves, just let they explode doin their shit (of course if they didnt attack us. its all ok to have their on ass fucked by them.)
lol