Google+ shutting down is kind of large
I do hope they come to Mastodon and not yet another centralized silo 😇
@Gargron New features that would make Mastodon really attractive for that would be:
1. The ability to create a public or private “community” on a given instance, which a user on any instance could join (under the control of that community’s moderators) and post.
2. Longer-form posts composed in Markdown format, which would only show a snippet in the regular timeline but could expand into something bigger (taking up 2 columns in the regular UI).
@mithriltabby @Gargron You could call it groups, right?
@hinterwaeldler @Gargron Given that this is Mastodon, don’t we have to call the feature “Herds”? (And the appropriate collective noun for elephants during i18n.)