Mike Dilger ☑️ on Nostr: I'm not so sure that the 'p' tags in follow lists were meant to notify those people, ...

I'm not so sure that the 'p' tags in follow lists were meant to notify those people, like 'p' tags in most events do. They were the only tag to carry a pubkey.

In Mosaic I explicitly indicate a "Notify Public Key" tag, and follow lists (not yet defined there) will use a different pubkey tag that doesn't carry the "notify" meaning.

This is because I don't think it is necessary or even very useful to tell someone you are following them, and it erodes privacy. It's tracking. It's like going to a web page and giving them a cookie.