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   Mastodon (mastodon@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-Apr-2026 22:26:21 JST Mastodon

   We’re ready to show you a new feature coming in Mastodon 4.6 - Collections. These are a way for people on Mastodon to curate and share bundles of accounts that they’d recommend to others, to help find connections and grow their network more quickly.

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     Mastodon (mastodon@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-Apr-2026 22:26:20 JST Mastodon

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     The initial release will be a starting point, while we learn from your feedback. The early focus is on creating Collections, with search and additional discovery options to come later. There are a few choices we’ve made (on size, following, etc) that we expect to revisit.

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     Mastodon (mastodon@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-Apr-2026 22:26:20 JST Mastodon

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     • Imani

     In a new blog post, @imanijoy provides a deeper dive into the design process for Collections, and explains what we’ve included (and things that are left out) for the first release. We’ll be enabling this feature on mastodon.social next week, and rolling it out more widely in Mastodon 4.6 very soon. We’re excited to hear what you think!

     https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/04/designing-collections/

     Tim Chambers repeated this.
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     ĞÖKÜ👻👻™ (gokushrm@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Apr-2026 01:32:31 JST ĞÖKÜ👻👻™

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     @Mastodon no need. I don't want anyone to add my profile in any random group without my permission. Full stop

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     toshquintin (toshquintin@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Apr-2026 01:42:12 JST toshquintin

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     @Mastodon Cool

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     Donald j Trump eT (blowurwhorens@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Apr-2026 01:47:33 JST Donald j Trump eT

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     @Mastodon that's so cue t

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     Mr. Lance E Sloan (IRL) 👤 (sloanlance@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Apr-2026 03:52:33 JST Mr. Lance E Sloan (IRL) 👤

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     @Mastodon
     I remember a discussion about this feature from a few months ago. I'm glad to see it's coming along.

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     Frank (europa112@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Apr-2026 03:56:16 JST Frank

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     @Mastodon will that be a Bluesky copy? I didn't like it there either, but I'm probably the exception.

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     Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Apr-2026 07:26:55 JST Eugen Rochko

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     • Max Leibman

     @maxleibman @Mastodon No, the server the account is on has to support the feature. This is a technical constraint--otherwise no opt-in/out mechanism would be possible. But the network tends to upgrade to new releases pretty quickly.

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     Max Leibman (maxleibman@beige.party)'s status on Friday, 10-Apr-2026 07:26:56 JST Max Leibman

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     @Mastodon Will accounts from servers that aren't on 4.6 be able to be included in Collections?

     If not, I'd be concerned that if this takes off it's going to have the effect of concentrating connections and attention on accounts on bleeding-edge servers.

     https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/116374923553276051

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     Julian Fietkau (julian@fietkau.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Apr-2026 17:01:57 JST Julian Fietkau

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     • Fedidevs

     @Mastodon Speaking as a contributor of @fedidevs which currently hosts Mastodon “starter packs” at https://fedidevs.com/starter-packs/

     We're working on interoperability with Mastodon Collections and will use the same technical mechanisms in the future, but completion of this work is months away. We endorse people migrating their Fedidevs starter packs to Mastodon Collections wherever that makes sense.

     We were involved with the backend tech behind Mastodon Collections. No competition and no bad blood! 🙂

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     Alexander Käßner (alexkaessner@mas.to)'s status on Friday, 10-Apr-2026 17:03:15 JST Alexander Käßner

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     • Imani

     @Mastodon @imanijoy I highly appreciate your usual care and moving in slow/small steps. I know that this is a rare thing these days, but I feel like this is a solid approach in general.

     Either way, looking forward to see this in production! :ablobcheer: Just recently thought about who I could add to my follower list.

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     Julian Fietkau (julian@fietkau.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Apr-2026 17:03:38 JST Julian Fietkau

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     • Fedidevs

     @Mastodon In the long term, @fedidevs will most likely focus on capabilities outside of the design of Mastodon Collections: longer lists, curation by multiple owners, etc.

     Smaller packs more personal in scope might make sense to be moved to a Mastodon Collection. We'll leave it up to everyone to decide which service fits their needs better.

     The safety features mentioned in the post (be notified when you are added, ability to remove yourself) will also be provided by our implementation.

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     Imani (imanijoy@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Apr-2026 17:04:34 JST Imani

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     • Magenta Rocks
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     @FinchHaven

     This isn't about onboarding as many users as quickly as possible, but rather giving a better onboarding experience to users who do find us. Retention and a better user experience, not acquisition at all costs. Thanks!

     @MagentaRocks @Mastodon

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     FinchHaven sfba (finchhaven@sfba.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Apr-2026 17:04:35 JST FinchHaven sfba

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     • Magenta Rocks
     • Imani

     @MagentaRocks

     "My one request is to keep my profile out of a collection - full stop. I do not want anyone to be able to add me."

     I second this

     Will there be a clear and immediate way to opt out of this new Mastodon "Feature"?

     The Mastodon obsession with onboarding massive numbers of newcomers as quickly as possible is pretty...

     ...undignified

     Exactly how fast and how large does @Mastodon dot Social -- currently at some 288,028 Active Users -- need to grow?

     And no, please stop

     This is about Masto Social growth

     The official party line that this is for all Mastodon instances anywhere is put to lie by following the comments / discussions at Mastodon Github -- particularly those discussions that are silenced as violations of the Github TOA by the official Hall Monitor

     Where does it all end?

     Anywhere?

     Who decided Mastodon needs to conquer the entire "Fediverse"?

     cc @Mastodon @imanijoy

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     Magenta Rocks (magentarocks@mastodon.coffee)'s status on Friday, 10-Apr-2026 17:04:36 JST Magenta Rocks

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     • Imani

     @Mastodon @imanijoy

     My one request is to keep my profile out of a collection - full stop. I do not want anyone to be able to add me. It is private for a reason. Bluesky does not have private profiles and being added to a collection or 'starter pack' there is a nightmare. My profile is set to approve followers and I do not want to have to deal with unwanted requests because I was added to a collection. Thanks!

     This appears to have been considered, but I want to see it clearly in my settings.

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     Stefan Scholl (stefan_s_from_h@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Apr-2026 21:44:08 JST Stefan Scholl

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     @Mastodon if there is or will be some server heuristic that determines if a new account is a bot, please don't count multiple follows caused by a collection.

     I heard of new #Bluesky users who got banned without warning because they followed starter packs.

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     your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 (blogdiva@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Apr-2026 21:49:14 JST your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

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     • Imani

     @Mastodon @imanijoy this looks great. my only note: make it opt-in instead of opt-out by default. other than that, ONWARD!