Mastodon features

Dame @lemmy.ml to Fediverse@lemmy.world – 24 points –

I’m curious as to you guys opinions. It could be Mastodon itself or a Mastodon client. What features would you like to see that are not currently available?

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  • Proper federation of favorites and boosts. You can't see favorites from people outside of your instance for some reason, and boosts are sorta federated from people outside of your instance, but still not fully. Lemmy manages to federate upvotes fine, so it seems like it'd be possible.

    The app I use (Moshidon) loads the actual favorite count when you open the favorites list, but it's annoying I have to go through that step.
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  • Quoting Posts
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  • Higher poll option count. 4 is not enough. I'd say it should be at least 6, preferably something like 15 or 25.
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  • Higher character count per post. No reason for it to be capped at 500. I'd say the default should be 1500.

    Also I think it's hard for admins to change the default character count, so that should be made easier.
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  • I'd really like an algorithm (optional, of course). Getting content you want to see is really difficult. It's hard to find people to follow, and when you do you get all of their posts in your feed, not just the ones you want to see.

I’d really like an algorithm (optional, of course). Getting content you want to see is really difficult. It’s hard to find people to follow, and when you do you get all of their posts in your feed, not just the ones you want to see.

Make sure you are following hashtags if you aren't. Follow people to get everything they post. Follow hashtags and you'll just get interest based posts (since pretty much everyone hashtags the shit out of their posts for visibility).

Hashtags dump a bunch of stuff into my feed that I just don't care about. I just want a good way to sort search results by something other than chronological order so it's easier to find people to follow, a chronological timeline is fine as long as I can choose what shows up there

Following hashtags seems to give me all the content I want, more than from what people I follow post. Maybe experiment with different variations of hashtags.

Nah, doesn't really work for me. Most topics I want to follow, hashtags are either not used, or used too broadly so I'm not really interested in what I get, or used too often so my feed gets filled with posts and I can't see the people I'm following.

What I do is if I want to see somebody's posts but I don't want to see all of their posts, I put them into a list. Then if they boost a post I like, I check out the person's account and either add them or don't add them to the list. Doesn't work too well, but it's not awful either.

And then I also have 1 hashtag pinned (Moshidon feature), so that I can see the posts on it without getting them in my home feed.