Looks like this is still happening btw. Both of these give me results in descending order:
<#assign query_follow = restadmin("2.0","/search?q=" + "SELECT login FROM users WHERE followers.id = '${user.id}' ORDER BY login ASC LIMIT 10"?url) />
<#list query_follow.data.items as q>
${q.login}<br/>
</#list>
<br/>
<#assign query_follow = restadmin("2.0","/search?q=" + "SELECT login FROM users WHERE followers.id = '${user.id}' ORDER BY login DESC LIMIT 10"?url) />
<#list query_follow.data.items as q>
${q.login}<br/>
</#list>