Follow and Collect keep signal, not hype

Commune has two social features: Follow and Collect. Follow is for updates. Collect is for taste. That’s enough social.

When you collect a note, it shows on your profile. People can browse your library, follow you, walk your trail. Co-collection becomes a strong signal for Related and Stroll give serendipity without a feed. If two people collect the same pair of notes, that connection matters.

No likes. No karma. No hidden ranking algorithms. Updates live in See what I’m working on. If two notes get collected together frequently but I’ve never linked them, that’s a signal I should add a connection.

If a note gets collected a lot but confuses people, I tighten the title (Titles are takeaways, not labels). Social doesn’t need to be loud to be useful. Taste, trails, and time are enough.

I hope people will pay for a working mind when followers see both the work and the curation that shapes it. Collect creates natural pathways through wikis based on human judgment, not algorithmic recommendation. Associative linking over hierarchies works when readers can create their own conceptual trails through the knowledge base.