@mckinley @prologic (#5gb3dqq) The same goes for follow events, isn't it?

@prologic (#5gb3dqq) I consider this a violation of privacy. Telling feed authors that you are following them is one thing, but disclosing this to the whole world is problematic.

@jlj (#5gb3dqq) Admittedly, once you start interacting with others, it's pretty clear, that you're following them. But if you just want to silently read somebodys messages, that's not silent then.

@mckinley (#5gb3dqq) Hahaha, great fun! :-D I reckon, the following stats need to reset after a specified amount of time (e.g. a week or whatever), so that they get cleaned up a bit over time. Not perfect by any means, but probably a whole lot better than counting a single request from sevens years ago. Unfollow events from other systems aren't propagated to yarnd, so that would take care of this.

@mckinley (#5gb3dqq) Of course I meant the stats on the followers of a feed rather than the followings of a feed.

@prologic (#5gb3dqq) I'd say the first thing regarding the privacy one is probably to disable the twtxt feed.

@prologic (#5gb3dqq) I haven't looked into the source code, but it naively appears to me, that we can just not list the twtxt feed anymore. At least make it not publicly available, if the feed itself is somewhat structural to the whole follow system. Very cool, that the unfollow is removed. :-)

@prologic (#5gb3dqq) Oh, actaully looking at the twtxt feed for a second or two, it seems that it also contains the "new feed created" events. So we could simply keep the "FEED" events, but do not add the "FOLLOW" events anymore. This way, the "FEED" events still announce new users/feeds. For users to see, who is following them, they could go to their followers page. But I reckon you want them to see this in their timeline, right?

@prologic (#5gb3dqq) Yes, I see the point. In fact it's really, really neat, that this just uses the same mechanism as regular feeds. The real notifications rock is probably too big to kill this bird. Maybe we can come up with personalized follower feeds for the users. It's just a crude idea. Haven't given much thought to that.