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Get the recent unfollowers / unfollowings? #3064

Open PavlosTze opened 14 hours ago

PavlosTze commented 14 hours ago

Hello,

I am looking into the API but couldn't find a straightforward way to get the recent unfollowers / unfollows through it. I know there are workarounds by keeping in a local storage all the current followers/follows and fetching them every time and diff them, but I don't think this is an elegant (nor optimal) way to do it and it will stress the resources at the end of the day.

Is there a more optimal solution in giving for example a timestamp or something and get back the unfollowers & unfollows since then?

DavidBuchanan314 commented 6 hours ago

Nope, you'll have to maintain your own index. Note that the "firehose" broadcasts deletion events (an unfollow is just the deletion of a follow record), which will probably help you.

PavlosTze commented 3 hours ago

Nope, you'll have to maintain your own index. Note that the "firehose" broadcasts deletion events (an unfollow is just the deletion of a follow record), which will probably help you.

I see, I was looking to use this functionality in a mobile app, which will be powered by the Bluesky's API so I guess it's a dead end here as I don't want to maintain my own servers etc.

AndreiSva commented 2 hours ago

I think it is good as it is now. It would not be elegant or make sense to have a separate API option for this.