<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><title>hodlbod wrote</title><author_name>hodlbod (npub1jl…jynqn)</author_name><author_url>https://yabu.me/npub1jlrs53pkdfjnts29kveljul2sm0actt6n8dxrrzqcersttvcuv3qdjynqn</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://yabu.me</provider_url><html>I think we need different types of &#34;follow&#34;. What about something like this:&#xA;&#xA;1. Friend — this person doesn&#39;t show up in my feed. But I like them, and want to keep track of them, and maybe be reminded of them on occasion (hey hodlbod, here&#39;s what your friend X has been up to this summer). I trust them, and want to factor their opinions in to content recommendations generated for me.&#xA;2. Follow — I want to know what this person says if it has engagement, is popular, or matches some other filter, like topics I&#39;ve expressed interest in. The Hacker News bot might fit in this category.&#xA;3. Super Follow — I want to see everything this person says. These are the people on my &#34;pure signal&#34; list currently.&#xA;4. Subscribe — these are people you don&#39;t care about, and whose opinions you don&#39;t care about per se, but are people who get paid (either by you or by advertisers) to recommend content or products. Could be bots or influencers. You&#39;d never see their content, but you would see things recommended by them.&#xA;&#xA;Items #2 and #3 are variants of the same thing, and could be conflated by assigning a decimal value to your follow (suggested by nostr:nprofile1qqsfcts2suzpxaeuhy2mnjwd9cwt69l98t3tp2r2hf09hu8uz0zzp5spzfmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ucpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq3vamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwdehhxarj9e3xzmnyuurtjm  earlier, but I used to have something like this in Coracle).&#xA;&#xA;The first category is entirely different though, because the value of the relationship is not based on what they say, but who they are. I honestly don&#39;t want to see anything my mom posts to social media unless she tags me in it (in which case she&#39;ll email me). But she&#39;s one of the most important people in my life.&#xA;&#xA;Likewise the final category. This is an entirely transactional-type relationship, and is exploited to provide additional social signal to otherwise neutral content. &#xA;&#xA;So, any other categories? This is really quite similar to nostr:nprofile1qqsyvrp9u6p0mfur9dfdru3d853tx9mdjuhkphxuxgfwmryja7zsvhqpr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ez6ur4vgh8wetvd3hhyer9wghxuet5qyt8wumn8ghj7anfw3hhytnwdaehgu339e3k7mgpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejsxp7af9 &#39;s &#34;relationship status&#34; nip, but with more ability to quantify what clients can do based on the relationship. It could also be implemented (of course) using NIP 32.</html></oembed>