Closed beergeekdotcom closed 7 months ago
Especially for larger sites, this is a very compelling feature request and would enable a robust means of following specific content users care about independently of any individual author from the site. Highly encouraged that this be considered.
This could lead to an almost infinite number of federated accounts being created, rendering account search unusable when trying to find a user. We don't want a repeat of the BirdSiteLive account creation fiasco - https://write.as/nicolas-constant/closing-the-official-bsl-instance
I suggest:
Yeah, I agree that something automated would not be all that useful. But something more manually created could be very useful. Especially so for content features on a subject -- either long term (a sports team, editorial focus) or short term (Election 2024, Olympics, etc.)
Something like defining a "user" by selecting any mix of single or multiple post_types and taxonomy / taxonomies.
An Example:
user = @wwc20203@publication.com is defined as post_type = post, category = sports, and tag = worldcup2023
Cheers, Jeff
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Curious if this feature was officially closed, or only closed due to a bot making it so after no action? Any chance of moving this idea back to life?
What
Think of a large content blog -- with multiple users and sections, like a newspaper. While users will likely love to follow individual writers, they also would like to follow content types or categories of content as well -- instead of just writers or all content. That same site might have user generated content -- like classified ads (sticking with the newspaper idea).
Why
For example in the newspaper site example -- a user may want to follow all sports coverage, but not news or business. So being able to define a post type, category, or tag as a virtual Mastodon user would be ideal for this.
How
Example -- assuming that the newspaper publishes at @newspaper.com@newspaper.com for all content:
All content in the "Sports" category could map to @sports@newspaper.com All content tagged as San Francisco Giants could map to @sfgiants@newspaper.com All content with post type "classified ad" could map to @classifieds@newspaper.com etc.