The act of subscribing to someone else's notes is inherently one-sided and creates a publisher and a subscriber. If both sides subscribe to each other's notes, then the connection is mutual.
Followers, follows, and mutuals are fine words ruined by mainstream influencer culture, but that's no reason not to use them.
For sure. But I also think how in this brave new world, the naming conventions are wide open.
But I hear you.
We've got a free market for naming things that were previously centrally controlled, so it'll be interesting to see what set of words we settle on.
There are lots of words you can use to analogize the physical act of getting a client to show you specific content from relays, and a lot of ways to choose what that content is. Right now we subscribe to specific npubs and call it following, but different algorithms will pop up with different relationship types. It's a brave new world for sure.
Frens that I #zap are connections with a spark. 😏
Yup 💹
