Just passing through.
There are very recent updates. Judging from this comment, some users seem to have some sort of grup support already.
I don’t see it on my Pixelfed instance. I’m not sure if that’s because it’s still on v0.12.4 (not the newest v0.12.5), or because it needs to be enabled by the admin. I also have no idea how it currently works.
People keep giving the advice of following hashtags. That might be good advice for really obscure ones where you’re almost guaranteed to be interested in anything posted, but I think it’s terrible advice generally.
Follow users, and hide their boosts or unfollow them if it turns out they make your feed less interesting.
Yeah, I personally don’t believe in blacklisting specific words as a moderation policy in general.
I think it has served Lemmy well though - the automatic filtering of certain words might have deterred some deplorable people from settling down here. :)
I think it’s fine like this - gets the point across!
I think the Lemmy devs included automatic removal of some words on the platform, but it can be disabled by instance admins. It caused some funny problems in the early days of Lemmy, as banned words could sometimes appear in completely harmless settings/inside other words. Not sure what has happened since or on which instances it’s currently enabled.
In either case I maintain that there’s a difference between free speech (cool) and hate speech (not cool).
I made a slight tweak to OP’s image, in case people want to share the picture on other networks. :)
Not perfectly done, but I feel like it might be an efficient way to spread the word.
They are also very open that this is an early beta, so I’m sure things are still subject to change. But getting the handles right as soon as possible should probably be a priority.
I’m not sure what would be best with regards to the different journalists. I guess people often want to follow topics or sites rather than individual authours. I guess each post could be posted to a main site and then automatically boosted by relevant sub-users such as individual journalists and specific topics.
404 Media has already enabled it, and can be followed at @index@www.404media.co!
I hope eventually these feeds will have better user names than “index”.
Ah yeah, it’s not possible on Mastodon either. Your content stays where it is.
I think it’s even less of a problem on the Threadiverse than it is on Mastodon though. Most people are interested in new content here, we rarely go digging too much through the archives. Though it would of course be neat.
On Mastodon it’s all about who you’re following and who you’re being followed by, so being able to move somewhere else and take your followers with you is a big deal.
On the Threadiverse we don’t really follow users so much, so the whole concept of account migration becomes very different. Migration of communities rather than of users would probably be the best parallel - it would be great if subscribers could automatically follow a migrating community without having to manually resubscribe.
It seems some users have some sort of group functionality and have had it for “quite a while”, but I don’t see it myself so couldn’t test it.
But yeah, groups in Pixelfed have been “just around the corner” for a while now.