MastodonWe’re ready to show you a new feature coming in Mastodon 4.6 - Collections. These are a way for people on Mastodon to curate and share bundles of accounts that they’d recommend to others, to help find connections and grow their network more quickly.
The initial release will be a starting point, while we learn from your feedback. The early focus is on creating Collections, with search and additional discovery options to come later. There are a few choices we’ve made (on size, following, etc) that we expect to revisit.
In a new blog post, @imanijoy provides a deeper dive into the design process for Collections, and explains what we’ve included (and things that are left out) for the first release. We’ll be enabling this feature on mastodon.social next week, and rolling it out more widely in Mastodon 4.6 very soon. We’re excited to hear what you think!
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/04/designing-collections/
Magenta RocksMy one request is to keep my profile out of a collection - full stop. I do not want anyone to be able to add me. It is private for a reason. Bluesky does not have private profiles and being added to a collection or 'starter pack' there is a nightmare. My profile is set to approve followers and I do not want to have to deal with unwanted requests because I was added to a collection. Thanks!
This appears to have been considered, but I want to see it clearly in my settings.
gudenau@MagentaRocks @Mastodon @imanijoy The blog post says that if you don't want to be in it, just exclude your account from the aggregation stuff. It's an existing setting that they're going to be adding this to which makes the most sense to me.
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Thomas (le retour de la revanche)@[email protected]
How do I opt out if I'm not on Mastodon ?
Yup, same question here.
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How do I opt out if I'm not on Mastodon ?
Yup, same question here.
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ImaniGreat question. This is up to your server and software. If it supports collections, it should provide you with a similar way to opt out; if it does not support the feature, your account will not be able to be added to a collection on another server.