Wie ich jetzt sehe, bei Zugänglichkeit und Nutzerfreundlichkeit, könnten paar Dinge anders gemacht werden. Im Beispiel, neuer Nutzer Dieter kommt auf Mastodon, und interessiert sich hauptsächlich für Sport, egal von welchem News-Outlet. Und nun kann er zwar hashtags folgen, bzw. Sportsektionen der News-Bots folgen - aber diese muss sich erstmal raussuchen. Und schneller wäre für Dieter, wenn er innerhalb von Klick einer Sammlung an Sport-Accounts folgen kann.
@DaLe
Yes. #Mastodon should adopt the kind of "starter packs" developed by #Bluesky.
https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/112706803915059829
@petersuber @DaLe I agree. It would be much easier to 'onboard' people to Mastodon if they had people to immediately follow. It's not like it's a nefarious algorithm: then can unfollow whomever they choose. But it beats seeing an empty timeline.
This could be a feature outside of any particular instance though. How about a web app that you sign into with your account and it follows people for you that post on a given topic, curated of course.
@petersuber @DaLe Or even just show searchable curated lists of people for given topics and you have to follow them yourself...avoids having to give access to a web app.
I was actually thinking more like an integrated feature, where a bot would have in profile something similar to hashtags, with a fediverse-wide norm, that tells what how it should be spelled, for the bot's feed be categorized on Dieter's app in sidebar under "News - Sports - Football - League X", which then would give him feed of all bots with such news. To also have user-created curated "collections", with which to follow several accounts at once, that would be neat though.
@DaLe @petersuber "fediverse-wide norm"
This is where your plan goes awry :)
I don't know about news bots over there. Over here, some news feeds are feeded by flipboard.com and already separated in categories, by several accounts for individual sections of a news-outlet.
And it would just need a parameter on these accounts, with a norm that all news outlets can use to have their individual feeds placed under "News" near the start page, categorized. Similar for e.g. "local history" accounts, to be a few clicks away from the start page.
@DaLe @petersuber This is true, @Flipboard has definitely made things easier.