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Cyclone1070 Jul 2, 2023

@dgoldsmith definitely groups. Coming from reddit it's so much harder to find content here

gitzwitscher Jul 2, 2023

@Cyclone1070 @dgoldsmith have you looked into lemmy? that is way closer to reddit. give it a try!

https://mstdn.social/@feditips/106835057054633379#:~:text=Lemmy's%20developers%20say%20%22we%20are,are%20strict%20about%20banning%20that%22.

gitzwitscher Jul 2, 2023

@Cyclone1070 @dgoldsmith I've looked into it, especially into this thread

so i would rather recommend kbin.social, which also understands lemmy, if I'm not wrong, it also understand mastodon, so it's quite interesting!

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Content warning: Please don't use Lemmy :( Human rights, oppression

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None of those.

@dgoldsmith none of them

Mark Darbyshire Jul 2, 2023

@dgoldsmith Federated groups! They're such an important part of community-building that will be essential for any real progress on getting people off the likes of Facebook.

unixninja92 Jul 2, 2023

@dgoldsmith bluesky style algorithms

toxtethogrady Jul 2, 2023

@dgoldsmith I also have an interest in quote posts, although I understand the feature got abused by trolls on Twitter...

As for "groups", it will allow "like" communities to form. Such as theater groups and social clubs. Which is useful...

Eshu Marneedi Jul 2, 2023

@dgoldsmith Please, Mastodon desperately needs good search.

artisanrox Jul 2, 2023

omg guys, full text search. It makes it sooooooooooooo much easier to find niche interests and doesn't demand you make something like "wildfire" into a dozen different tags.

D. an end to the secret "real" issue tracker.

Cavyherd Jul 2, 2023

Bonus points for a proper gif server

Rai Aren 🖖✨📚🇺🇦Jul 2, 2023

@dgoldsmith
I'd like more functionality for lists - to see the list of members & the ability to share the lists with other Mastodon users
#MastodonLists

@raiaren You can export and import lists already. It's not possible to share them directly, though.

Rai Aren 🖖✨📚🇺🇦Jul 2, 2023

@dgoldsmith
Thank you!!

@dgoldsmith https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/7692

jrduncans Jul 2, 2023

Janne Moren Jul 2, 2023

@dgoldsmith
All three are useful if implemented with care.

A fourth option:I miss being able to put people only in a list; or mute people only in my main feed, not in lists.

You know those people that post or boost *a lot* of stuff every day? You want to follow them, but you don't want them to take over your entire feed. So I want to put them in a list, and go there when I want to read them.

@jannem https://joinmastodon.org/roadmap

In progress:
MAS-42 Add option to exclude list members from home feed

Public Roadmap

Learn what we are working on in Mastodon

Janne Moren Jul 2, 2023

@dgoldsmith
You just made my day!

niphette Jul 2, 2023

@dgoldsmith IMO the number one priority should be easy user migration between instances

dontony Jul 2, 2023

@dgoldsmith ranked choice polls?

Fahri Reza 🍉Jul 2, 2023

@dgoldsmith quote posts for "SEO" goodness? I imagine researchers would rather prefer full text search.

Marc Robinson-Rechavi Jul 2, 2023

@dgoldsmith I think the number of likes and boosts on this post says something about the priorities of at least part of #ScienceMastodon https://ecoevo.social/@marcrr/110621782586054602

Marc Robinson-Rechavi (@[email protected])

Incidentally, Mastodon's utility for scientific discussion will stay limited as long as it's impossible to search for URLs. I had a look at the discussion of this article over at Twitter (several of my colleagues are also very negative), but I have no way of doing that here.

ecoevo.social

Jim Jul 2, 2023

@dgoldsmith Self aggrandizing types want their quote posts...

Maria Abreu Jul 2, 2023

@dgoldsmith Not necessarily full search (I can work with hashtag search), but the problem is that search only returns posts by accounts known to my instance. This is ok for some topics, but for others I’m missing most of the posts. I could try switching instances but that wouldn’t cover all of my topics of interest. I’m not sure how you would solve it though in a federated system.

Dale Reardon Jul 2, 2023

@dgoldsmith For the sake of the whole Fediverse & to get costs down for instance owners with the Fediverse growing I suggest rapid & highly skilled work on caching & server efficiency & API efficiency to make the whole Fediverse more scalable and cost efficient

Fahri Reza 🍉Jul 2, 2023

@dgoldsmith since there been talks about rate limit, how about the ability for instances to advertise their vacancies, "we have two empty rooms for new users", and make it easier for them to move between instances and eternal redirects.

"That instance's local users discuss art, I want to move there"

Mark R. Stoneman Jul 2, 2023

@dgoldsmith I'm not sure what full text search would even look like across instances. Sounds like a lot more than just a feature. As far as groups go, there is a halfway-descent third-party solution. https://opencollective.com/guppe-groups As far as quote posts go, I'm not sure I care, since one can still work around that, as we did before the bird site implemented it. Still, maybe the quote-post functionality would encourage more boosting, if initially some friction too.

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Alon Jul 2, 2023

@dgoldsmith Full text search, and drop the quote-boost - it's not that helpful for conversation and is very helpful for context collapse harassment attacks.

Boswell Jul 2, 2023

@dgoldsmith get celebrities, influencers and journalists on here. Then twitter has literally no use at all

Sci-Fi Girl Jul 2, 2023

What would groups involve? (I don't see any descriptions of the features at the roadmap list.)

#5ciFiGirl

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/19059

@5ciFiGirl Here’s the PR, which references the issue as well:

Add groups support by ClearlyClaire · Pull Request #19059 · mastodon/mastodon

⚠️ Do not merge ⚠️ This PR is not intended to be merged outside of purely development environments until it's finished. While it has reached a pretty stable state, groups are a complicated top...

GitHub

Sci-Fi Girl Jul 2, 2023

Interesting, thanks! 😎

Jeff C. 🇺🇦🇬🇱Jul 2, 2023

@dgoldsmith @evan Any chance we can get proper lists?

• Lists can be shared with others.
• You don’t need to follow the people on lists.
• List content doesn’t show up in your timeline (I gather that this is planned).

The current implementation falls pretty short of this.

@jeff @evan You can already export and import lists (the latter is recent). Not exactly the same but you can do it, effectively. List content hidden in your timeline is indeed on the roadmap.

Sungjin 성진 Jul 2, 2023

@dgoldsmith I think text search would help the most with engagement and retention. I understand there are drawbacks though.