@Mastodon Starter-Packs wären grundsätzlich eine gute Sache. Leider sind aber schon viele z.B. Bundesministerien , Politiker und Journalisten zu Bluesky gewechselt, ohne die Bridging-Funktion zu Mastodon zu nutzen. Somit werden die Accounts, die dann möglicherweise in diesen Starter-Packs gelistet sind, hier leider garnicht mehr genutzt.

@Mastodon It's a good idea that we can control to be added or not! 👍

What I think about Bsky: https://mastodon.online/@NatureMC/115338006912930566

Their way of pumping up the already big influencers would be a danger for Mastodon's organic structure.

For me, it was quite easy to build my timeline with subscribing to my favourite hashtags. But most people don't know that they *can* subscribe! Why not making that more public? It's already a structure to find like-minded people.

@Mastodon This addresses the consent aspect but doesn't have anything to say about how it skews the power dynamics. What happened on Bluesky was that getting included into a few packs was a "lottery win" and people gave little Oscar acceptance speeches to their tens of thousands of new followers, while people who had happened to not be included in this or that pack were bitter about their exclusion

@Mastodon is this the implementation that takes advantage of #activitypub "Organization" object type, so that ppl can join / unjoin an org?

@Mastodon surely this should be “herds”

@Mastodon Please, please just let me turn off the boost/quote menu.

I can't remember seeing more than a single quote toot so far and have never used (or wanted) it myself.

That's it. Please fix this before I can't stand it any more.

80% of the time the only option on that menu is boost. This is an awful #UX fail.

Thanks for listening.

@Mastodon How about the ability to add hashtags to starter packs too?

People will not know all the common hashtags for the subjects that they are interested in, e.g. Defaidodon, LichenSubscribe,...

@Mastodon orbit or circle or jhund (hindi word)

@Mastodon Is the main scenario really just onboarding here? I like the idea of curated lists of accounts on a certain topic. Something that may be updated regularly. Something like the lists feature but sharable. Maybe similar to OPML.

@Mastodon yeah, the collective noun "pack" is used for wolves, dogs and hyenas (and hounds, cards, cigarettes, lies and thieves).

If you want something for elephants, try "herd" or "parade".

(Source: https://www.britannica.com/science/Animal-Group-Names)

@Mastodon FUGs Fediverse User Groups.

@Mastodon A flock of elephants (which is the closest we get I guess) can be called a herd, sure, but it can also be called a parade!

Join the parade! Find your parade! Your new friends awaits you at the parade!

I think we should call it a parade!

✨PARADE✨

#Parade #MastodonParade

@Mastodon A group of elephants is sometimes referred to as a Parade.

@Mastodon What about account migration *with* posts? Focus on essentials firsst.