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knallfrosch ◴[] No.43105732[source]
Anyone following hundreds of thousands of users is obviously a bot account scraping content. I'd ban them and call it a day.

However, I do love reading about the technical challenge. I think Twitter has a special architecture for celebrities with millions of followers. Given Bluesky is a quasi-clone, I wonder why they did not follow in these footsteps.

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tshaddox ◴[] No.43106942[source]
Or just enforce a maximum number of followed accounts.
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ARandumGuy ◴[] No.43107432[source]
No matter how high you set a maximum limit for interactions on social media (followers, friends, posts, etc), someone will reach the limit and complain about it. I can see why Bluesky would prefer a "soft limit", where going above the limit will degrade the experience. It gives more flexibility to adjust things later, and prevents obnoxious complaints from power users with outsized influence.
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1. tshaddox ◴[] No.43108077[source]
I’m skeptical that the people who would complain about that wouldn’t find something else to complain about if you resolved the first complaint. I’d recommend implementing product features that you think are reasonable and accepting the fact that you will get complaints from people who disagree.