…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.
something like this:
https://subredditstats.com/subreddit-user-overlaps
but for lemmy would be nice
it’d basically solve the issue of duplicate communities too
AfaIk, you will be following some accounts in your field of interest by default, so that your timeline isn’t empty at the start.
I hope they coordinate on this.
We have Mastodon Migration’s “Follow Packs”: https://mastodonmigration.wordpress.com/2024/11/20/mastodon-follow-pack-directory-nov-20-2024/
Dansup is working on “starter kits” for the fediverse: https://github.com/pixelfed/apska
Now Gagron’s team is working on a similar thing.
Stefan Bohucek is imperimenting with a separate version too. We’ll end up with multiple implementations of this.
The ‘Follow Packs’ are just a web directory. That’s totally different.
I have no idea what dansup is working on there, but it seems destined to be another plate he’s not going to focus on keeping spinning.
Gargon’s team is probably going to end up building something that’s off spec and idiosyncratic to Mastodon, basically guaranteeing that there are totally unrelated implementations across the fediverse.
Maybe they could also fix the “suggested accounts” feature so that the top recommendation for me isn’t an account that posted once 2 years ago.
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.
Hell Yeah
