we already have this feature on the Tusky app but I'm glad Mastodon is adding it to the native app
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Huh, admittedly I've only been on Mastodon since Juli, but I remember always having had the Lists function, or at least since I joined anyway... I've been classifying certain topics in Lists together for a while now, while they all stay in my home screen... I really hope the update isn't that it now removes them from home to "declutter" the only tab that gathers everything you follow for bored scrolling? That would be terrible...
The update adds the option to remove accounts on a list from to declutter the home feed. It’s off by default
Optional is always a good thing. 😅
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Mastodon, the decentralized Twitter / X alternative, is adding lists to its Android app, according to a blog post from CEO and founder Eugen Rochko.
“With the new update, you now have the ability to create custom lists and categorize your follows based on specific topics or interests, while removing them from your home feed,” Rochko writes.
The feature is coming to iOS, but according to spokesperson Renaud Chaput, “we are currently refactoring the app to solve some performance and crash issues, so the work is taking a bit longer than on our Android version.”
Rochko adds that “our iOS and web teams are also working steadily on new features and improvements.”
I had a handful of lists on X, formerly Twitter, that I used to rely on quite a bit; they were a really handy way to get updates from people and accounts you didn’t want to always show up in your home feed.
But even though X isn’t the platform it once was, Mastodon, which is powered by ActivityPub, is facing fierce competition from other Twitter alternatives like Bluesky (which is building its own decentralized social networking protocol) and Meta’s Threads (which has promised to eventually integrate with ActivityPub).
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Lists are kinda useless, because you have to follow everyone you put in a list
I assume it's so you can have one for news, and one for nudes, depending on the reason why you opened mastodon. No boner-killing BBC articles in the middle of a fap session.
Or you can make multiple accounts. The app makes it super simple to swap accounts on the fly.
Nah, I like to live dangerously
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