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John Spounias :opalstack:

@darius let me think about it a bit, when I read the wiki link I liked the 'friends' concept. that is what clicked for me, before that I couldn't figure out what was 'exclusive'. 'friends' is the key takeaway here, something personal. I will try to think of something.

Darius Kazemi

@d3cline Yeah. The thing is it's not about friends necessarily -- I also use it as kind of a quarantine zone for accounts that post too often but I still want to follow occasionally.

John Spounias :opalstack:

@darius any chance instead of a bool it can be a numbered list or an dictionary type object with names. Like labels?

John Spounias :opalstack:

@darius I like the what its doing, but could see it being done in many different sub-feeds. Like I could filter by topic and have topic feeds. Many users tend to be very focused. So maybe one for 'tech' and one for 'politics' or 'news' or what have you. Then the 'exclusive' concept is extended for use cases defined by the user.

Darius Kazemi

@d3cline Oh: that is too complicated. I thought about doing that and decided against it. Someone who is not me is welcome to implement the feature you describe

John Spounias :opalstack:

@darius I would keep pushing what you got then, it seems like it could be helpful and a stop-gap to the more complex version of the feature.

John Spounias :opalstack:

@darius and the removing them from the home feed means I can add more content there and do more filtering etc, it acts somewhat like a queue after that.

Daniel Stucke

@darius @d3cline whatever it gets called I’ve been wanting this feature ever since joining the mastodon fun. There are a good few accounts I’d like to have in a list to check in on now and then but I really want muted in my main feed. I know I could follow them by rss instead but doesn’t make sense doing so outside of mastodon if it can be helped.

FiXato

@darius 'confined', 'quarantined', 'secluded' or 'limited'?
@d3cline

Paul Rohr

@darius @d3cline

Try calling it a "filtered" list. As in posts from everyone on this list get filtered from the main feed, + only get seen when you look at this list.

1. As in your design, this property gets toggled on a per-list basis.

2. A given account could still be included on multiple lists (regardless of this setting).A

3. BONUS UX: Any per-user Block/Mute affordances get a prepopulated "Filter to..." action to choose a filtered list to join.

Darius Kazemi

@pevohr @d3cline I don't love that name because filtering is already a thing in Mastodon and it is known as a thing that gets rid of content rather than putting it somewhere else

Paul Rohr

@darius @d3cline

Really? Given how the content filtering page is currently worded, that implication is a surprise to me. As written, it talks about contexts where copies of a given post do or don't get "hidden". Indeed, the words "as if" imply that the post isn't gone, you just don't see it in (some of) the usual context(s).

Indeed, I deliberately chose to reuse the concept of filtering because email (+ other) filters work exactly the way you want this to.

Filter contexts *

One or multiple contexts where the filter should apply

Home and lists
Notifications
Public timelines
Conversations
Profiles


Filter action *

Chose which action to perform when a post matches the filter

Hide with a warning
(Hide the filtered content behind a warning mentioning the filter's title)

Hide completely
(Completely hide the filtered content, behaving as if it did not exist)
Dmitri Vassilenko

@darius Maybe "collecting"? Like, it collects the posts from the home timeline.

NowWeAreAllTom

@darius @d3cline "Silo lists" maybe? Or "side lists" (like asking for dressing on the side) or "cloistered lists?" Maybe I'm being too metaphorical here

Darius Kazemi

@tom @d3cline there was a suggestion for "contained lists" or "container list" that I liked best so far

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