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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Niko Trimmel@rakoo
Edit: oops I was wrong, see Renauds repky below
@nitrml @gudenau @MagentaRocks @imanijoy @Mastodon ah, great, another Mastodon-specific feature, exactly what we need
Renaud Chaput@rakoo The post above is incorrect: any account on a server that supports FeaturedCollections (as described by our FEP draft here: https://github.com/mastodon/featured_collections) can be added to a collection. It will require this account to approve it before it's added.
So either your Fediverse server does not support collections and you can not be added, or it supports collections and will offer you a way for you to decide if you want to be added
