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/
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trainguyrom@blogdiva @Mastodon @imanijoy this was my first thought as well, it should probably default to "ask me every time" before adding a given user to a collection (with of course options to opt out and opt in to inclusion in collections), and probably include the collection name/info in the follower request/notification if the new follower is following via a collection.
Probably should also be easy for a user to see a full list of what collections they've been included in and to remove themselves from a collection if desired, maybe even including a message sent to the collection owner when they do so?
I'm just thinking through all of the potential abuse scenarios and how to best mitigate them without completely gutting functionality
That Hacker Girl@trainguyrom @blogdiva @Mastodon @imanijoy Also want to give my strong support for these considerations.
I am really looking forward to using this for making collections of bands, distros, and labels! But full enthusiastic consent is the standard I'd really like to aim for.