So it seems that, now that Threads is federating, the most popular person in the fediverse is... Mark Zuckerberg:
https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/users/release_candidate/statuses/112140845317198247
I find these "popularity contests" pointless, ridiculous and inherently toxic, and a signature of private social networks where the goal is not to help people communicate between each other.
This is the reason why #snac does not propagate how many followers nor likes a person have.
https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/users/release_candidate/statuses/112140845317198247
I find these "popularity contests" pointless, ridiculous and inherently toxic, and a signature of private social networks where the goal is not to help people communicate between each other.
This is the reason why #snac does not propagate how many followers nor likes a person have.
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An even better alternative: randomize the number of followers over an uint64_t... 😂
Inspired by: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@release_candidate/112140989389792692
@grunfink I think that shows how profoundly meaningless follower counts are in the federated model; even if one doesn’t trust the numbers from a webfinger response and verifies every single follow, it boils down to trusting instance admins doing a good job at not allowing malicious bot accounts (and historically, even big tech platforms weren’t able to do that reliably).
So true. In this special case, those gazillion followers are mostly sure not even part of the fediverse themselves (given that not all Threads is federating), so it's just a blatant lie.
Or even returning
zuck.followers + 1000😆