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   Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Sunday, 13-Nov-2022 07:55:14 JST Evan Prodromou

   Is there a way to send to a list in the default interface? Or in advanced interfaces? Like, if I want to send family photos just to people I've marked "close friends and family".

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Sunday, 13-Nov-2022 07:57:27 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Space Hobo Actual

     @spacehobo They are addressable in ActivityPub. It doesn't seem possible right now, but there might be a way around this.

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     Space Hobo Actual (spacehobo@teh.entar.net)'s status on Sunday, 13-Nov-2022 07:57:28 JST Space Hobo Actual

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     @evan You can tag them all in by hand and select "Mentioned people only", but that seems kind of clumsy if the list gets large. I don't know if lists are addressable in any protocol-level way: they seem more like UX features from what I've poked around with.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Sunday, 13-Nov-2022 07:58:29 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Nemo_bis 🌈

     @nemobis OK. Thanks!

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     Nemo_bis 🌈 (nemobis@mamot.fr)'s status on Sunday, 13-Nov-2022 07:58:31 JST Nemo_bis 🌈

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     @evan Not really. People have handled this by having multiple accounts with different contents/followers/privacy settings.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Sunday, 13-Nov-2022 07:59:59 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Eugen Rochko
     • Dr. Quadragon ❌

     @drq @Gargron OK. I think if a server can handled distributing to followers only, it should be able to handle distributing to a list, too. I'm going to put it on my list of things to think about as I learn about this platform.

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     Dr. Quadragon ❌ (drq@mastodon.ml)'s status on Sunday, 13-Nov-2022 08:00:00 JST Dr. Quadragon ❌

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     • Eugen Rochko

     @evan I think, what you basically do is mention them in a message and send it as "mentions only".

     Mastodon is very basic, it doesn't support Aspects/Circles as Diaspora did. Would be good idea though.

     cc @Gargron

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Sunday, 13-Nov-2022 08:06:47 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Eugen Rochko
     • Dr. Quadragon ❌

     @drq @Gargron Neat! There's a pretty good schema for group management (create, delete, join, leave, update) in ActivityStreams 2.0.

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     Dr. Quadragon ❌ (drq@mastodon.ml)'s status on Sunday, 13-Nov-2022 08:06:49 JST Dr. Quadragon ❌

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     • Eugen Rochko

     @evan @Gargron (please say yes, I've been waiting for groups for years, I've had enough messing with the bot and having others do the same)

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     Dr. Quadragon ❌ (drq@mastodon.ml)'s status on Sunday, 13-Nov-2022 08:06:50 JST Dr. Quadragon ❌

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     • Eugen Rochko

     @evan It's not terribly different from what you had with GNUSocial, I think.

     Minus groups. But @Gargron is working on this.

     You are working on this, Gargron, right? Right?

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     Trolli Schmittlauch 🦥 (schmittlauch@toot.matereal.eu)'s status on Sunday, 13-Nov-2022 08:08:49 JST Trolli Schmittlauch 🦥

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     • Bonfire

     @evan There are Fediverse implementations working on having a Circles-like sending control feature, like @bonfire. But nothing stable I know of so far.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Sunday, 13-Nov-2022 08:11:20 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Trolli Schmittlauch 🦥

     @schmittlauch @bonfire It's useful! I'll see if I can figure out how to make a feature request in the Mastodon repo. I'm going to take some time to get to know the network before I start making requests.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Sunday, 13-Nov-2022 08:28:48 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Darius Kazemi
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     • Kevin Marks

     @KevinMarks @blaine @darius Yes, I know! It was pretty good.

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     Kevin Marks (kevinmarks@xoxo.zone)'s status on Sunday, 13-Nov-2022 08:28:50 JST Kevin Marks

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     • Darius Kazemi
     • blaine

     @blaine @evan @darius the previous fediverse stack (gnusocial) had groups defined with an ! prefix that were relayed across instances. https://laemeur.sdf.org/gs/group-index.html

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     blaine (blaine@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 13-Nov-2022 08:28:51 JST blaine

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     • Darius Kazemi

     @evan the way I’ve always imagined this working on fedi is:

     1. Circles are defined by account; don’t do lists, curating people is weird. Do an alt account, instead!

     2. But some “circles” are defined collectively, and those are just like mailing lists; join an instance as a foreign account, subscribe to the local feed & post into that instance as your foreign identity.

     I don’t think (2) exists today in Mastodonland, but we’re not far off? @darius?

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     aab (aab@khp.ignorelist.com)'s status on Sunday, 13-Nov-2022 09:15:51 JST aab

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     • Kevin Marks
     @evan @KevinMarks There are plans to improve Gnusocial groups, by the way: https://www.gnusocial.rocks/v3/
     LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} likes this.