Mastodon Follow Pack Directory – Nov 20, 2024

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LOL, could you remove the reply addresses from your reply. This is one of the unfortunate characteristics of Wordpress blogs, all the addresses are included in your reply.

Strypey

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@mastodonmigration.wordpress.com

FYI There are a bunch of polls about Starter Packs, starting with this one:

https://infosec.exchange/@thenexusofprivacy/113512328290399242

I'm totally fine with opt-out for myself. But as these poll results reflect, people in the verse are, on the whole, keener on opt-in.

I strongly suggest you make this an opt-in thing ASAP, to avoid getting dogpiled the way @snarfed.org did when he added BlueSky and Nostr support to BridgyFed.

Alice McFlurry :bc:

@mastodonmigration OMG so many names! So sorry! The unwitting victims have been removed.

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@Alice Certainly they will recover. They are, after all, social media warriors.

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@strypey @mastodonmigration.wordpress.com @snarfed.org

Very familiar with the poll and have been promoting it. This implementation could maybe be viewed as a temporary laboratory for whatever future more integrated solution emerges and this account will certainly collaborate with anyone working in this area.

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@strypey @snarfed.org

Regarding Opt-in, Opt-out. So far no one has objected to being in a pack. Misidentified one person for a topic and they asked to be removed. 100% opt-in is very laborious to do, and would effectively kill any such implementation. If we want to have these things which help build community, we can't impose so many impediments that they become useless. Trying to be very clear about the opt-out policy, and responsive. Let's see how this goes.

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@strypey @snarfed.org

Also, feel like the absolutely critical thing is that people are notified when a pack is published and given the clear opportunity and method to object. Again, this effort is experimenting with how to do this and so far there has been no problem communicating with pack members. All so far are very pleased.

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@strypey @snarfed.org

Also, very important IMO, is pack size. In order to manage these things it is critical that the number of accounts in a pack be capped. Finding 25 to be ideal because it is enough to 'prime the pump', but not too many to stay on top of. Also 25 accounts fit in a 500 char post if you need to message all of them with some room left over for the message.

Plenty more lessons learned, and happy to discuss them.

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Tasha Sounart 🎮🏰

@mastodonmigration.wordpress.com would love to see more creatives on here (you can include me if you want )

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@tashasounart

If you would like to provide a list, would be happy to start a Creatives pack.