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@ Fabian
2025-06-10 04:17:48
> I think we still might be talking past each other on a couple things, though.
Probably :)
The problem with Last seen is many people, including myself, would rather not make that public. What’s worse is that it is unexpected. When you update a private bookmark, or some other private data, you don’t expect someone else to see that you were online 1 minute ago, but that’s what happens when using public relays to save private data, even when encrypted because the metadata is public.
> When the user then decides to follow someone from this new client, instead of taking the information from an existing kind 3 and adding to it, the client just creates a new one. Is that accurate or is there something else happening behind the scenes causing follow lists to get nuked?
Yes accurate, but with follow lists you can be almost certain there should be one available when adding existing accounts, so if you can’t find one you can disable the follow button. Or you can publish a new list with an older timestamp to reduce the chance of overwriting the one not found.