Everyone who was complaining about the auto follow list who is now complaining about it being removed has outed themselves as really just being mad that they themselves weren't on the auto follow list.

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this doesn't make sense, if you weren't on the auto follow list why would you complain about it being gone?

i've seen mostly ppl who were complaining about their engagement now

They can bury me deep, but I always grow back.

Because it means you'll never have a chance to be added to the list.

I don't think the auto follow list was a mess up. It produced a high quality initial feed and was easy to implement. Sure it wasn't the most fair, but who cares if it's fair but new users have a bad experience and churn.

I think the new starting feed will be an improvement in quality and will be a little more fair, but this doesn't mean the initial list mechanism was a terrible idea. It was quick, easy, and highly effective.

And sure now there are a bunch of people with tons of followers, the "faristocracy" as some call it. Is this some great evil? I don't think so. I have a great time on here with 2.4k followers, and I hope they are having a blast with their 250k followers.

I agree

https://warpcast.com/ncitron.eth/0x8f00ba50

far better for the network for ppl to compete on engaging content than a lottery