I prefer contact… because it’s almost like verifying “I have come into contact with this persons keys” and have chosen to extend contact to them or not… if you follow them, you choose to be their contact and vice versa

If you follow eachother maybe that would be a “contact bond” or something meaning both keys verify and sign for eachother meaningfully in the WoT system- I trust them, they trust me and we have an established public social bond to some degree (a bond here just means I’d trade with them consensually in the circular v4v economy)

Idk if that will always translate properly on relays but the premium clients should manage this just fine because there’s enough shared coverage on the default relays and/or outbox model