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Followers refers to the Relationship "Followers" which is anyone who if following you, including "Mutuals."

Mutuals should include followers, followers shouldn't include (all) mutuals.

So "Subscriber" = "Follower." Same thing.


Yepp, probably some left over from a time where on term was used instead of the other or maybe some different term used in "news channel" or "community page" accounts in old times. Probably some kind of left over.

anything similar to Facebook's "Friends of Friends."


Never heard of that, luckily never been on fakebook either.
So nope, nothing like that over here.
Probably some fb invention to spread marketing ..

Circles is quite new so if there come up inconstistences in terms or strange overlaps, that might be something to work on in terms of explanations or maybe improving terms.

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Mutuals should include followers, followers shouldn't include (all) mutuals.

Not according to my testing with multiple accounts, some of which were "Mutual Friends" and others only "Subscribers/Followers." All Mutuals are, by definition, also Followers. But Followers you are not following back are not Mutuals.

"Friends of Friends" on Facebook are people you are not Friended to but they are connected to someone you are connected to. So you have a mutual person in between you and them. Under the general idea that the people friended to someone you're friended to are probably okay too, and potentially people you might want to friend directly yourself. But if they can't see anything you post or anything your mutual contact comments on or likes, neither you nor they would ever know each other exists if the posts aren't public.

I really wish Friendica had that because 99% of everything I ever posted on Facebook was to "Friends of Friends" (which includes the mutual contact in between you, so it's actually "Friends" + "Friends of Friends").

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