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Sublay provides two distinct social relationship systems: Follows (one-directional) and Connections (mutual/bidirectional). You can use one or both depending on the social model your app needs.
Requires the follows and/or connections bundles. Follows need the follows bundle and connections need the connections bundle — install whichever you use. See Bundles to add them.

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Follows

Follows are one-directional. A user can follow another user without requiring approval or reciprocation — similar to Twitter or Instagram’s follow model.

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Connections

Connections are bidirectional and require mutual acceptance — similar to LinkedIn. One user sends a request; the other must accept before a connection is established. Connections go through several states: none, pending-sent, pending-received, connected, declined-sent, declined-received.

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Choosing Between Follows and Connections

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Blocking

User-to-user blocking severs interaction between two users across every Sublay surface (follows, connections, DMs, content, mentions, notifications, discovery, and profiles). Blocking is a trust & safety primitive that ships with the moderation bundle, not the follows/connections bundles — see Moderation — Blocking for the full enforcement behavior and the useBlockManager hook.

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In This Section

useFollowManager

High-level hook for toggling follow state on a profile

useConnectionManager

High-level hook that manages the full connection lifecycle

useBlockManager

High-level hook for toggling block state on a profile

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Hooks

useFollowUser (+ more)

All individual follow hooks for custom UIs

useRequestConnection (+ more)

All individual connection hooks for custom UIs