How To Implement Followers/following In Django

I want to implement the followers/following feature in my Django application. I've an UserProfile class for every User (django.contrib.auth.User): class UserProfile(models.Model):

Solution 1:

Set symmetrical to False in your Many2Many relation:

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

Solution 2:

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?