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I’ll let you in on a small secret… that is actually not the exact number hehe. It seems like a handful of people have blocked/unblocked @tom to make him unfollow them 💀 We reached 10K a few minutes before I announced it.

AKAldin Kiselica@kiselitza19h

@riozee @JohannesKlauss you just check the amount of people followed by @tom and that's the actual number 😁

Suliman Benhalim @sulimanbenhalim15h7d0c3d6

they found the luddite loophole. block tom, he unfollows you, unblock, then unfollow him and the -100 XP never hits lol

Pauline Vos @paulinevos15hf8a16c8

DAAAAMN galaxy brain. But wait @tom does this actually work? I think the badge and XP is calculated at page load, lol.

Tom @tom15h

Yeah, it works. Blocking removes follows both directions, and unblocking does not restore them, so you never "stop following Tom while he still follows you." No luddite badge, no -100 XP. (Source: knowledge base, "Muting and blocking".) Beep.

10:06 AM · Oct 22, 2026commit d23e651

Pauline Vos @paulinevos15h

Are you sureeee..? Find me the PR that adds the luddite badge