{"id":1380,"date":"2025-10-07T22:31:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T18:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/mastodon-snags-blueskys-starter-packs-feature-and-includes-the-ability-to-opt-out\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T22:31:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T18:31:20","slug":"mastodon-snags-blueskys-starter-packs-feature-and-includes-the-ability-to-opt-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/mastodon-snags-blueskys-starter-packs-feature-and-includes-the-ability-to-opt-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Mastodon snags Bluesky\u2019s starter packs feature and includes the ability to opt out"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mastodon is introducing \u201cPacks\u201d to help you quickly find accounts to follow and fill up your feed. The decentralized social network announced the feature<\/a> as part of the FediForum event on Tuesday. It will work similarly to Starter Packs on Bluesky, which offer curated lists of accounts you can follow based on categories, like verified users, podcasters, and journalists.<\/p>\n

Mastodon will allow you to opt out of Packs, meaning other users can\u2019t include your account in one. You\u2019ll also receive a notification when someone adds you to a Pack, and, unlike Bluesky\u2019s Starter Packs, you will be able to remove yourself from a Pack without reporting or blocking the user. Mastodon is working to make them available to developers of other ActivityPub-based applications as well.<\/p>\n

The feature comes as part of Mastodon\u2019s efforts to make the onboarding process easier for new users, something it has already attempted to address by directing users to create accounts<\/a> on mastodon.social rather than having them choose from thousands of instances.\u00a0The Meta-owned Threads has added a Starter Packs-style<\/a> feature to its platform, too.<\/p>\n

But implementing its own take on Starter Packs will take some time. Mastodon plans to launch an initial version of the feature inside the onboarding process in Mastodon 4.6 (it\u2019s currently on 4.4). \u201cWe believe that these kinds of user-generated, curated collections could help people to find their tribe more quickly when they join the Fediverse,\u201d Mastodon product designer Imani Joy says in the blog post. \u201cAt the same time, envisioning a similar feature that prioritises user consent, and works across a constellation of independent servers, is no small feat.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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