Should Mastodon implement something along the lines of Bluesky's Starter Packs in a future version release?
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@Rainer only if it's opt-in.
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.
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.
Of course, there is already a very active thread on Public / Sharable lists on the Mastodon GitHub:
@alsternerd Thanks for sharing that link. I'll save it for later because I took a quick glance at it and its definitely not light reading for a saturday night