Topic: "The New Mastodon Is Interesting"
This is another screenshot of a profile on Mastodon showcasing the Mastodon Feature where 2 people you follow(which are not mutual follows!) show up in
"Followed by" and "and x others you know"
What do you think about the way this feature is designed?
Good design?
Needs improvement?
Perfect?
So I spent a lot of time writing a post...which I think was kinda irrelevant but I wrote it due to me being excited with a Mastodon feature.
This can be seen in this screenshot I'm adding here:
Not a complaint comment: It would make more sense to me if the Fedi users showing up were mutual follows...just saying! No judgement!
#Mastodon #MastodonFeature #MastodonFeatures #MastodonFeatureAwareness #NotHashtagSpam #NoJudgement
is there a way to filter only posts without a cw?
A feature missing in Mastodon is the ability to save drafts… is there a method for emulating them?
One Mastodon feature I’d like to see is a notification for when someone accepts your follow request.
I add people to lists right when I follow them. But if I request and they accept later, I’m not capable of remembering to go back add add them to lists. My ADHD brain fails me there.
Probably only an issue if you follow a million people. Still. I’d like to see that.
Anyone have a good workaround for this?
#Mastodon #MastodonFeature #MastodonTips #FediTips #MastoTips
Group Pages are a Mastodon must have feature in order to encourage more Facebook users to move to Mastodon. The ability to form a private group for a club, some topic, or organization is valuable and essential.
It could be a minimal feature initially:
- Group Page Creation and Group Owner
- Group Page Private (initially)
- Member Invitation
- Member Posting
- Member Comment and Like of Another Member’s Post
- Post Editing
I recently deleted my Facebook (FB) account due to FB policy changes, it’s clear allegiance to Trump and Musk, and to its AI insertions. FB privacy has always been a concern. I never liked FB but used it in one narrow case for a group access to a private Triathlon club page. I’ll miss that.
I would love to be able to encourage that group to move to Mastodon. But the Group feature needs to be added to do that.
#Mastodon #facebook #socialmedia #technology #GroupPages #MastodonFeature
Mastodon feature request: I would like to be able to have separate follow lists. Currently, I have my general follows in my "Home" list and my super follows in my "Notifications" list. I would like to add a number of other custom lists.
By the way, it would be nice to reset/always ask for the language @ivory #mastodon #mastodonfeature #mastodonquestion
So, if I’m going to post in different languages, should I consider creating several accounts or is it ok to just set the language and let people filter by language? #mastodon #mastodonfeature #mastodonquestion
The top #MastodonFeature, which I hope the core development team realizes this year is reimplementation of automatic language detection and storing appropriate language coding into posts on the web client.
Idea for a #MastodonFeature: updated post notifications display as a diff, w/added text underlined & removed text in strikethrough.
Or maybe an #ElkZoneFeature ?
I wish you could put a content warning/spoiler tag like halfway down a post. So you could have an all-eyes introduction and hidden text in the same post.
Currently (as far as I know) if I wanted to tell everyone that "the politics of De Palma's 'Dressed to Kill' have actually aged better than you might" and then go into detail behind a warning it would have to be two different posts.
Since you can control whether edits will notify you, I think it would be pretty easy to create a new #MastodonFeature #Subscribed where the post keeps getting updated.
That way, the post keeps showing up in your notifications. Won't have to fight the feed wondering if it will show up to all the same people.
Bring the YouTubers vibe, smash that Like button, and subscribe.
Clients could make this a configurable option that breaks these off into its own column or keeps it the same, and they will appear as a regular post.
Today ( actually yesterday ) I learned that there is software that does what Mastodon does, but has more features.
It is called "CalKey" which is a fork of "MissKey". It is similar to Mastodon, but with more features.
Mastodon, MissKey, and CalKey all run on ActivityPub, the protocol that makes federation possible.
All 3 interoperate. For example, someone I talked to using Mastodon told me about CalKey.
Same content, just different ways of getting there. Like using a different car to drive on the same roads, getting the same content.
Supposedly ( I haven't tried it ), CalKey has an easier and more advanced migration tool. Something to think about when the next Mastodon server ceases to exist or you don't care for mastodon.social and other servers embracing Threads.
#CalKey #MissKey #Mastodon #MastodonMigration #MastodonDevelopers #MastodonFeature
#Threads #Meta #ActivityPub #Federation #Fediverse
#Help #Questions #MastodonFeature
Do filters I set work for content I view through #Explore ?
It does not seem like it does.
@badtux@mastodon.social
>move instance
The tools to do that aren't here.
The best you can do is an incomplete process that leaves portions of your account behind and a complicated process you have to do manually.
#Gargron #FeatureRequests #MastodonMigration #MastodonFeature #MastodonDevelopers
If I post on Facebook I don't want, I don't expect, my post to appear on Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube. If I post on Mastodon I don't want my content to go to Kbin, Lemmy, Threads (Meta's decentralized app), or a site/app I never heard of. I don't want my content going someplace that I did not *choose* as a destination.
I've gotten a number of federation fan boys lecturing me that is what the decentralization is all about.
Decentralization has been sold as a protective move against corporate abuse. Preventing another Elon Musk and protecting people from anti-user pro-profit policies.
Mastodon and open source are supposed to be about respecting users.
I think it should be a user's choice where her/his content ends up. I think it should be in their power to make that choice easily without having to rely on the good will of an Instance Admin.
I think each Toot & Reply should have the following visibility options.
1. Public - Everywhere
2. Private ( only @ tagged people )
3. Mastodon ( everywhere on Mastodon, only )
4. Local ( only on the local server of the user )
Plus a Preference for the user to pick his/her default visibility level.
#Mastodon #Facebook #Meta #Threads #Feature #FeatureRequests #MastodonDevelopers #MastodonFeature #MastodonFeatureRequest
Imagine starting a post, and then checking a box:
This is a thread: ☑️
Then you write out the multiple posts in the thread and submit them.
Then someone comes along and wants to view your thread.
There is a button that says: [View as eBook]
You press it and a Modal window pops up, where your thread appears as flippable pages.
I can see this happening in the future, and I can see a huge boost for any platform that adopts it.
So you could theoretically fake a "make this post visible to list" by listing in the post all the accounts on a list and then making that post Mentions only.
A client (like @ivory) could even implement this function and also hide/windowshade lists of users at the top or bottom of a post.
@Gargron I’m sure this has already been requested tons, but I figured I’d try….
Are we able to get trending posts, tags, and links based on our servers federated posts and users?
I’m running a small server myself and am missing the value I saw with the trending section to help build my network.
