I’ve gotten to the point where finding new users to follow is becoming tedious. I need a reliable and preferably fast way to view all/almost all users on wo.m. Does anyone know of a way? I’ve already tried using the Wasteof Wrapped website to find a few, but the results are incomplete and outdated when people have changed their usernames.
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there probly sum code u can write to brute force find every user by spamming the API but idk if jeffalo would like u to do that
depends on how long usernames can be but u wriet sum code to make a list of every single possible combination of characters (in other word, every theoretical username ever) and ask the API if each one of these exists (this would take too long and probly crash wasteof in the process)
Ah ok, there’ll be hundreds of billions of users in that case. I thought you meant you could ask the API what users exist :P
I did the maths: there are approximately 40481240000000000000000000000000 different combinations of wasteof usernames, and on my computer it takes 1 and a half seconds to check if each one exists, so it would take around 60000000000000000000000000000000 seconds or 20000000000000000000 centuries to check them all xD
I did this for scratch a while ago, but only checking 3 letter usernames, and it took 27 hours 
i can only imagine how long it would take to check every single username lol.