Can we call them "contacts" instead of "followers". The latter has a cultish feel to it I always found creepy. Now that we can edit the source code and define our own perspectives, it's time for a rethink.
@albertcardona Heh. The thing is that you can't please everyone. Someone else might take offense at contacts. ;)
And followers does describe it nicely. We could be contacts, but not be following each other.
@trinsec Clearly I am not the first one to voice this out loud. And yes the directionality question pops up immediately, which reflects the asymmetry. Contacts seems to imply reciprocal connections. What other names for this have been discussed before?
@albertcardona No clue, I don't really busy myself with this kind of detail. Probably because they're just words to me that I take at face value.
Maybe you can find something about this on the Mastodon project page? Not sure where it is, maybe github or similar. Might be able to find the info on their site or the documentation links here.