 Doing a little victory dance because today #Hometown's "exclusive lists" feature was merged into Mastodon. Which means once it is part of a release, that is one less thing for me to maintain. Everything is going according to plan :AngelDevil: Link to github PR: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/22048 Link to human-facing exclusive lists explainer: https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown/wiki/Exclusive-lists 39 comments
 @darius hey congrats! feels like it's been about a hundred years from proposal to upstream…    @darius exclusive lists are brilliant, this is a well deserved inclusion in upstream Mastodon   @darius Now the only list feature I miss from twitter is being able to have lists of non-followed people. I had people I wanted to read or keep track of, but didn’t want to personally ‘endorse’ in other people’s suggestions with a follow. I heard that this was sometimes a channel for abuse so it may never come to mastodon.  @poswald @darius It could be done in a manner that mitigates abuse if you provided people with the option to opt into it. That way, organisations and high profile people who get abuse anyway, listing or no listing, can opt to be included on lists without a follow while those who don't want it can stay opted out. @JonnyT @darius admittedly I don’t know much about the abuse of it but I feel like there are a lot of good uses for it that aren’t abusive, especially if it’s a private list. If someone is sharing a list around for abuse, then banning them or their instance seems like a suitable solution. Same as someone inciting mobs via retoots or quote toots. I think there are already 3rd party tools for tracking lists, and a spreadsheet or custom software would do it too. @poswald @darius The abuse vector is that vile people can create lists to export and share among themselves, to make it easier to target specific people for pile-ons - happened a lot on Twitter. If you can't be added to lists without being followed, and you also lock your account to require a review before someone can follow you, you can better prevent that from being an attack mechanism.  @darius Hurray! I have been hoping for that for ages. Presumably it'll reach Gitch too. @pre my understanding is glitch already has it, though a different implementation maybe? @darius Humm. When I installed Glitch there was a pull-request for it from Clare but it had never been merged, and it didn't work when I tried to merge it myself coz it was so old the codebase had changed too much. Possibly things have changed since then but I can't see anything in any of the list settings. @pre this does track with people who use glitch replying to posts that say "glitch has it" with "huh I had no idea"  @darius@friend.camp TFW you don't have to maintain something anymore but it still gets maintained cause it's someone else's problem ☺️  Thanks, this is a feature I was just wanting, my home timeline has gotten a bit overgrown.  |
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