Mastodon: Relationship metadata

[zerok]

Hi 😄 First of all a big thank you to everyone who is working on Mastodon!

I often browse through my follow-relationships and can no longer remember why I chose to follow that account. Here it would be great, if I could somehow include a description of such a relationship that is only visible to me as the creator of that relationship.

Other information that might turn out being helpful here and could be exposed primarily/exclusively to the creator:

• When was the relationship created
• When was the relationship stopped / re-created
• Hashtags about the relationship (e.g. adding #golang to everyone I follow because of their expertise with the Go programming language)

Affected API methods:

• POST /api/v1/accounts/:id/follow
• POST /api/v1/accounts/:id/unfollow
• POST /api/v1/accounts/:id/block
• POST /api/v1/accounts/:id/unblock
• POST /api/v1/accounts/:id/mute
• POST /api/v1/accounts/:id/unmute
• GET /api/v1/accounts/relationships
• GET /api/v1/blocks
• GET /api/v1/domain_blocks
• POST /api/v1/domain_blocks
• POST /api/v1/follows
• GET /api/v1/mutes

Would something like that be useful to somebody else?

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• [x] I searched or browsed the repo’s other issues to ensure this is not a duplicate.
• [ ] This bug happens on a tagged release and not on master (If you're a user, don't worry about this).

[wxcafe]

This sounds pretty interesting to me. I think if we add something like this we might wanna make it a simple text field, that frees us from having to handle every single use-case and allows users to do more things with it.

[tchoutri]

We might as well have the Reddit Enhancement Suite feature to write a memo about a user.

[fsnk]

The hashtag part sounds like de-facto lists.