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

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

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

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

wouldn’t mind public with “only allow follows from power users”

but that only works until bots unlock power badges too. I’m sure some much smarter folks could come up with a nice solution that leverages the tech better.

I just really like this platform and want it to continue to grow organically