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Implement "familiar followers" api?
Mastodon 3.5 added a new GET /api/v1/accounts/familiar_followers api. It returns the followers of an account you know.
With that we could do something like Twitter, where we show "Followed by ... and x others", and you can click it for the full list.
Should we do this yes/no? Any other ideas what we could do with that api?
From a completeness standpoint it would probably be a yes. But I don't really see the usefullness of it.
I always liked the idea of being able to explore a sort of "friends network". So a number of accounts which are linked because they mostly follow each other. With this you could find "new or missing friends". However this is a much harder (compute expensive) feature. The familiar_followers api is not very useful in that sense.
If API works normally I would go for it. The benefit is that you know that others trust this person
