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People are running role-playing games on the tumblr communities and somehow it works really well. Communities are popping off.
I'm fascinated by the ways that social media "features" almost never get used as intended. Tumblr tried to have this thing called "tumblr live" a few years back and everyone hated it. Communities have been better received.
I wish we had something like "communities" here on mastodon. Imagine if monsterdon could be a little more ... contained.
Yes it's charming to have warning posts about the incoming onslaught of #monsterdon posts each Sunday. The monsterdon people are very considerate all things considered. But, it feels like swimming upstream. We need a groups feature.
I have thought about doing many fun things here, but rejected it because I don't want to spam people more than I already do. Groups ideally would have a customizable landing page, members list, the ability to view only posts from the group. Nothing huge.
The other very simple feature I wish mastodon had was a way to view one (1) most recent post from each person you follow in order with no repeats. People post at different rates and I often like to go through the people I follow and see what I missed. This feature would make newer users feel more included and boost engagement generally and it's just a fancy search query ...
(read the post after this before responding with a "solution" please)
I would absolutely adore a feature like this.
I follow many people, many of them not posting to often, so frequently I don't have any idea what they're currently up to.
