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term: relationship
category: social
status: canonical
authority: social.elonn.local
---

Relationship

An explicit, directional record from one member to another expressing a social stance. Currently only the block type is supported.

Allowed:
- block (the only active relationship type)
- blocking a member
- blocked member

Forbidden:
- follow (removed; was a relationship type; do not reintroduce)
- follower (removed along with follow)
- friend, friendship (not part of the model)
- connection (LinkedIn-connoted; not the model)
- subscribe (not the model)

Notes:
- The follow relationship type was removed in migration 004_authorization.sql. Do not reintroduce it.
- Circle membership is not a relationship. Circles are derived from private community co-membership, not stored as relationship records.
- Block is bidirectional in effect: if A blocks B, B cannot appear in A's discovery graph and vice versa.

Related:
- circle
- block
- community
- discovery