nichoth
commented
1 year ago Another way to do this
You can keep a list of people you are following. This is a list of people that you want to look at, regardless of whether they have shared anything with you. You see their public posts in your main view.
Your list of follows can be private.
Friendship could be naturally emerging when two people follow each other.
We want to be explicit in the UI about following vs friendship.
- [x] need to implement the function to save a public post.
- [x] need to rewrite follow logic. Can add someone to your private list of 'follows', without any permission from the other user.
- [ ] should show followers in the UI
- [x] should 'follow' the inviter when you redeem an invitation
- [x] rewrite invitation logic — should do a public/permissionless follow after redeeming an invitation.
we need another term for sharing your private files
We need a way to describe the condition of a follower who can see your private posts, but has not shared their private posts with you.
Or maybe not. Because in the long term, we want users to be able to configure different groups of 'audiences'. That happens totally on the sharer's side (the followee), the follower does not need to request access to a specific collection or something like that.
Need a way in UI to differentiate different follower levels.
We should offer the ability to 'follow' people without sharing your own private photos with them.
Need to figure out a concise, nice way to inform the user of what is happening. Who can see your files? User B is a friend, does that mean they can see your files, or can you just see theirs?
This splits friendship into different types — can be a follower, also you have followees. friends are when two people are following each other?
This also is relevant to having different friend circles within the app, so you have more control over who can see what.