How to implement followers/following in Django

Question

I want to implement the followers/following feature in my Django application.

I\'ve an UserProfile class for every User (django.contrib

Answer 1

In addition to mouad's answer, may I suggest choosing a different *related_name*: If Mark follows John, then Mark is one of John's followers, right?

Answer 2

Set symmetrical to False in your Many2Many relation:

follows = models.ManyToManyField('self', related_name='follows', symmetrical=False)