Welcome to the party, @threatcat! I reckon it's totally fine what you're doing. Over time, message counts naturally drop anyway. :-D And this is fine, too.

@lyse There’s a couple of new users on https://tilde.club, but since this is a shared host, I doubt that they have access to their access.log files. Hence they’ll never see followers, unless we notify them out of band. 🫤