…dumb question but what’s a starter pack? will there be booster packs?
On Bluesky a user can group a bunch of other users together under some topic and then offer the pack to others to help them get started with who to follow. You can auto-follow everyone in the pack. But afaik you cant choose whether to be included in a pack.
So… user-curated default subs. Probably less relevant on lemmy because communities aren’t as fine-grained as following individual users but I don’t think we even have instance-wide default subs, just the all feed.
A “people who joined your communities also joined these communities” mechanic would also be a good idea I think. Run dimensionality reduction over the data once a fortnight and just give people the results, that is, tell them which bubble they’re in.
What Mastodon and any fediware need is a form to choose your instance :
- random general instance btw a mixed of a few middle size instance rotation every now and the
- fully random instance
- a instance rofly matching our liking through a short questionary. Five minutes max to make an account using a unified interface.
How do starter packs help Mastodon become a better platform?
They help with discovery for users making it easy to find curated lists of people to follow.
Hell Yeah
Mmm. Will users be able to opt out of being selected for inclusion in a starter pack? I see some issues happening over on BS about this.
