Meh. They are not our contacts though. That implies some sort of dm relationship and that’s not what’s happening.
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It doesn't imply any DM relationship. An npub is a form of contact information you are asking the app to save. "Follows" is just incorrect
"Npubs feed" is nice, but we don't have only feeds, often apps have hybrid features. And a generic, lowest common denominator can be useful, "Contacts seems and appropriate one.
Agreed
I also really like the idea of converting a follow list into a "bookmarked npub list"
So the follow button becomes a bookmark button, and the follow feed would become a "bookmarked npubs feed" but the wording would also make users think about checking on individual npubs one-by-one instead of just conglomerating them in a feed
I wonder what other suggestions people might have too, "follow" is psychological malware imo
For me reading someone writings, replying, reacting, zapping is a form of relationship.
And we don't have only social clients, we have many other, often hybrid, apps. The most used Nostr apps have DMs along the social feed.
I definitely don’t see reading or even replying as any form of relationship. Follow is very different to me and does not signal trust of any kind. I can follow just to see what a person is about without ever trusting them. Contacts sounds like we keep in touch and I added them to be in touch. But that’s not really why I follow - they haven’t earned the right to be a contact.
This is an interesting point of view, and we already explored it when WoT entered the scene: if you follow someone that you don't trust, with the current WoT implementations you validate him anyway, since he is present in your social graph. This is a problem, that probably lists could easily solve.
And if this is the path, "contacts" could effectively have a (minimal) trust meaning.
I can’t stop a client I’m using from renaming the thing, but it would sure be annoying.
Wot is also weird. I sometimes see people in my wot feed that feel like they are intruding in my space because I haven’t followed them. Other times it feels normal - depending on the mood I guess.