Matt Ellery

Two things that would make Mastodon even better:

1) More instances that are clearly *for* something (e.g. photography, Doctor Who, Linux etc.) - I'm thinking like the old Usenet newsgroups.

2) A way to filter the federated timeline to only show the instances you are interested in. https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/423 looks like an option, but really anything that manages the firehose would be :ok_hand:

Apr 6, 2017 at 9:20amWeb
Show threadNate Cull (.social)Apr 6, 2017
@MattEllery Physically local instances might also be sensible. Eg in same city or timezone. Both to minimise data traffic and international privacy issues and to find people who are awake
Show threadMatt ElleryApr 6, 2017
@natecull yeah, I can see that being an interesting feature to use - are you thinking more along the lines of instances filtered by proximity to your IP address?
Show threadNate Cull (.social)Apr 6, 2017
@MattEllery maybe - just thinking about country / city / timezone really, not fine-grained geolocation. Picking a home instance should be up to the user, but location information for the server could be useful to inform their decision.
Show threadSteffen ChristensenApr 6, 2017
@MattEllery I'd like some clever semantic filtering code, myself, but making it run *fast* could be a challenge. #hmmm