Still hoping to be able to add hashtags to lists, someday. It would be a marvellous way to create a list for, say, computer hardware, or local politics, or your favourite genre of video game, or whatever. I'd love a Linux list, like I have Bluesky, a platform that will enshittify soon enough.
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There is also an older, slightly different issue that would give people such an option. It's been open for 7 years now (I hesitate to say: luckily it hasn't been closed, so far):
I've been assigning people I follow into #lists, in #mastodon. I'd like to see who I follow is not in a list, so that I can finish the job. How might I do that?
@FediTips #fediverse
If you're looking for news accounts to follow on Mastodon and the Fediverse, you can find lots of them listed on the website organised into categories and topics:
@FediFollows Thank you, this is very #helpful 🤗
I didn't know you can do all these things with #Lists , and I would have most probably not found that out without you!
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I'm finding so many interesting people here on mastodon "this time round". Yet when I look at the dates they joined, they were already here when I joined back in 2022, when #X began its fall. Yet shortly after, I had many months of dismay at not finding what I wanted here, and so eventually a period of not checking in. Maybe we were still novices at using the tools availablee? - already lulled into the stupor of curation-by-default that the old platform provided, at first unbiased, then tainted with all the imposed unpleasantness that has become epic.
Technique [1] I've found useful is to search words and # 's then ADDITIONALLY follow people who post interestingly on those topics. There're defects in the "#"-federation system that mean ⚠️⚠️you'll only see # mentions in your home timeline from instances that you or those you follow actually /already/ follow actual accounts on.
@FediTips explains this in their guides and posts.
Combined technique [2] is to use #lists and the 🔔 #alert at the top of profiles: those that post occasional gems and not much else... because otherwise the gems get lost in the deluge of boosts from prolific re-posters. #Lists in conjunction with the "tweetdeck" multi-column window. All this means that in a quick scan of your app you see more of the gems of the posts since you were last here, rather than the random deluge of the moment you check-in.
Interesting experiment coming up.
I have been adding everyone to lists of one kind or another for the last while.
Now - to activate the list thing, which apparently means my timeline will be more ordered and organised, and I can browse it by browsing the various lists several times daily. If it doesn’t make life easier I’ll return to the chaos of my regular timeline in a few days. So, if I’m silent or replies seem weird, or different, this is why. #Lists#Mastodon#MonaApp
Also—and I really don’t want to sound like a BlueskyBro here—is there any software that implements custom timelines in the Fediverse, such as the super cool ones Bluesky has?
It would be super cool if lists could be made not only of profiles, but also of hashtags and keywords, ideally even having custom algorithms, too!
If your Mastodon timeline is getting too crowded, you might want to split it into several themed mini-timelines using the Lists feature. More details here:
You can optionally set Lists to hide their posts from your main timeline, which makes it less crowded.
For example, you could create a sports-themed List for all the sports accounts you follow, and look at that List when you want to see the latest sports-related posts.
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