@maya @darius it *would* be nice, I think, if there were something like "local timeline" / "federated timeline" but which actually worked or made sense. like opt-in community feeds, or subscribable lists or something.

@mcc subscribable lists would be coool

@mcc @maya @darius we need lists if only so we can collate all the "hourly animal" accounts

@even_more_damned_muteKi @mcc @maya @darius are there "hourly animal" accounts on #Mastodon? I haven't encountered any yet

@Cleoqc @mcc @maya @darius *the shirt I am wearing immediately changes text from "one feature request" to "two feature requests"*

@mcc @maya @darius hindsight but i wish the concept of joining a community and who is your admin were decoupled. would make joining an instance a bit easier a decision, but oh well

@aeva sounds even more confusing- does everybody get to choose their own admins, and you have to live with other people's choices?

@ryanprior that's not what i'm suggesting at all

@aeva @mcc @maya @darius isn't there some sort of auto move accounts feature now?

@aeva @mcc @maya @darius I wish activitypub used webrtc datachannels instead of websockets so you could run your own server in the browser tab the client is in

@parataxis @mcc @maya @darius YES

@parataxis @mcc @maya @darius right so if you want to only have one account, and your main interests are spread out across multiple instances, you have to pick one local timeline and be a quasi outsider to the others AND annoy everyone on the instance when you post about other stuff too often. or you make multiple accounts which is a pain.

@parataxis @mcc @maya @darius and so either way mastodon handles context collapse kinda poorly, and it handles the opposite kinda poorly.

@parataxis @aeva @maya @darius I think you still lose your posts along the way.

The problem is your Mastodon account is in itself like a Twitter or like a blog— an archive of posts and a persistent identity. But the community features seem to suggest you're treating it more like an IRC handle, and constantly logging off of one IRC server to log on to another.

It doesn't make much sense to delete your blog when you switch IRC servers…!

@mcc @maya @darius https://a.gup.pe sort of hacks this group functionality (follow a group account, and it autoboosts any posts that @ it). The most recent Mastodon blog post briefly mentions groups as an upcoming feature, too! https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2022/04/twitter-buyout-puts-mastodon-into-spotlight/

@mcc @maya @darius they have that, at least in Tusky and the web app. You can make a feed composed of certain hashtags.

@alexispurslane @darius People don't really seem to use hashtags, though. (Actually I'd like to use them for purposes of categorizing my own posts, but they clutter the posts up so I don't!)

@mcc @darius yeah I have a hard time using them to, but that is what they're for

@alexispurslane @darius Maybe if there was a way to make hashtags invisible, people would use them more.

@maya Mastodon also isn't going to badger you with suggested follows, etc.

@bradysflungtablet Twitter suggested follows worked really really well for me when I was on there, so I don't regard that as an upside 🤷

@maya >prune people back later
Why would you do that to yourself? :^)