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Thesis: a web of trust based social network wouldn't have a reliable "global" follower / like / etc count -- it would only be the ones you've seen -- and this would be a feature.
Some of the most toxic behavior on Twitter comes from people trying to become "the most popular person in the room", which also leads to a lot of social messaging which isn't about being constructive, but differentiating yourself in a way that makes you look better than others.
@cwebber tumblr doesn’t have public follower counts at all and I’ve always seen that as a feature in the context of that platform
Your suggestion seems like it’d work similarly well for mastodon
