Skip to main content

Should Mastodon implement something along the lines of Bluesky's Starter Packs in a future version release?

Please boost for visibility 🙏❤️

  • Yes (28%, 85 votes)
  • No (16%, 49 votes)
  • Maybe (11%, 33 votes)
  • What's a Starter Pack? (44%, 133 votes)
300 voters. Poll end: 5 days ago

This entry was edited (6 days ago)
in reply to Rainer 🇵🇸

El Duvelle
El Duvelle
• •

Yes. But we don't need to call them "starter packs" - they're just public lists.
Twitter had that too, you could see 1) which lists you're on and 2) which lists someone is following (as long as they were public) and you could follow them. Great feature that is unfortunately absent on #Mastodon simply because the lists are private.

#Lists #StarterPacks

#mastodon #lists #starterpacks
in reply to Rainer 🇵🇸

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸
Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸
• •
I can see no harm from giving new people this option.
in reply to Sjoerd Levelt

El Duvelle
El Duvelle
• •
@slevelt @venite @chris
you should be able to block people to avoid being on their list(s) (this is how they worked on twitter)
@Anna @Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 @Sjoerd Levelt
in reply to El Duvelle

Anna
Anna
• •
@elduvelle @slevelt @chris That would be a good first step! If we’re hashing out user stories, I’d prefer more options to fine tune. What if I don’t mind the person per sé but don’t want to be on their list? I’ve also been put on lists where I just don’t belong (like “London people”).
@El Duvelle @Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 @Sjoerd Levelt
in reply to Rainer 🇵🇸

Amy (She/Her)
Amy (She/Her)
• •
only if it's opt-in.
in reply to Amy (She/Her)

matt at oslo dot town
matt at oslo dot town
• •

@eco_amandine

Good point. Mastodon's Lists feature could evolve by including two options:

- Lists are currently private. There should be an option to make them public / sharable via a URL.

- Everyone should get an opt-in option in their Privacy settings to say "Allow my profile to be listed on Public lists"

That way it doesn't break the existing list functionality, but also allows people to not be included to lists that can be shared.

cc. @Rainer @Gargron

#Mastodon #MastoDev #Lists

#mastodon #mastodev #lists @Eugen Rochko @Rainer 🇵🇸 @Amy (She/Her)
in reply to matt at oslo dot town

matt at oslo dot town
matt at oslo dot town
• •

@eco_amandine

This does create a blanket opt-in vs opt-out functionality - but I think that would be okay for an initial version of public lists.

In future versions, you would probably implement more finite controls for those that want to be listed on public lists, but approve their listing / remove themselves from particular ones.

cc. @Rainer @Gargron

@Eugen Rochko @Rainer 🇵🇸 @Amy (She/Her)
in reply to matt at oslo dot town

matt at oslo dot town
matt at oslo dot town
• •

@eco_amandine

Of course, there is already a very active thread on Public / Sharable lists on the Mastodon GitHub:

github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i…

cc. @Rainer @Gargron

#Mastodon #MastoDev #GitHub #Lists #PublicLists #StarterPack


Shared/Collaborative User Lists · Issue #18292 · mastodon/mastodon

Pitch Instance-bound (I'm assuming federation-wide implementation would be extremely difficult) shared user lists primarily associated with the creator's account. A rudimentary administrative privi...
GitHub
#mastodon #github #mastodev #starterpack #lists #publiclists @Eugen Rochko @Rainer 🇵🇸 @Amy (She/Her)
in reply to Rainer 🇵🇸

Joe
Joe
• •
I'm not saying this is good UX, but you can already kind of do this via "Settings => Import and Export => Import => Following list"
⇧