woke up to 400+ bot followers. this sort of experience kills user trust on a platform. until this is fixed I’d rather go private and use something like follower requests

making /internetfriends and interfaces. pixelsforyou.com

Do you think the solution is filtering out this sort of stuff client side (ie priority mode) or something else at the protocol level?

Yeah I can see that, are you thinking the protocol has like follow requests but profiles are still public? Or some sort of system for private accounts?

The latter seems like a client level thing using the same identity layer - but it would run into network effect issues

priority mode and power user filtering is great, but I would hope it’s a handled at the protocol level. it will only become more difficult to build clients if real users don’t trust interactions, content, links, or their own audience