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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
It’s pretty incredible how good people are at sniffing out resource scarcity and “status” markers People absolutely speedrunning the: “whoa Farcaster is pretty cool” ⬇️ “wait why don’t I have an active badge” ⬇️ “kill Dan and everyone he puts on the auto-follow list” cycle rn
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elle
@riotgoools
it's unfortunate that everyone is conditioned for follower numbers. i think with the current social landscape, that metric is totally useless at best and misleading at worst i don't think i'm on the auto-follow list and i still get tons of what appears to be non-human followers which renders the number pointless to me
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Steve
@sdv.eth
I believe most people above a certain threshold are on the auto-follow list. It seems to be weighted based on existing follower count so you just get them less frequently than "larger" accounts, but more frequently than "smaller" accounts. I've tried to understand how it works since October— maybe I'll do a writeup.
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elle
@riotgoools
interesting – i assumed i wasn't on it bc i never get clumps of followers that look exactly the same in pfps or have similar handles like i've seen other ppl post
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Steve
@sdv.eth
I’ve been on it since maybe when I had 600-700 followers. I would observe newly created users who auto follow /frontend and watch them create their account in near realtime; most notably the 50 autofollows . At the time it was like a <1% chance I would be followed by those users. As my account grew, so did the %.
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elle
@riotgoools
i wonder if there's still a selection process for accounts that this auto-follow algo applies to or if someone could create enough accounts to follow themselves until they reach the auto-follow threshold
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