We should not be using follow lists, to determine what to read, to attest to someone being worth interacting with, or to publicly declare frenship.
We should not be using mute lists, to mark what we consider spam, or to denote "npubs who get on our nerves and should just be quiet for a bit".

That is bad design dragged in from legacy social media and it is holding us all back. And now we're coming up with bug fixes and workarounds for this stuff, or cracking jokes about how crappy it all is and declaring the crappiness to be our Proud Nostr Tradition, instead of admitting that we need to just scrap that whole concept.

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