Welcome to followlists.online. The purpose of this website is to provide a quick and easy way to create and share follow lists that can be imported on Mastodon.
Below you can find publicly shared Follow Lists. You can create your own - either public, hidden or private list by Signing In using your Mastodon account in the top right corner.
You sign up and use this by authorizing access to your cosocial.ca account (or other Mastodon server). You enter the address and then you’ll get a screen like this:
Come and go! While it’s a bit more manual, Mastodon has everything built in to share lists that can be imported, it’s just very buried and not a One Click operation (it might be three).
I shared this approach in the Discourse community I run - there I had created a list of people in the space known to have fediverse accounts
as well as a more sprawling idea to create your own Mastodon Starter Packs
Yes, the three clicks was why I was excited by the public follow lists, for both the directory and the way, via OAuth, it would just add those follows directly to your account.
I don’t think the import method is usable / easy enough to broadly promote.
I believe I saw some other “starter pack” initiatives happening that might be useful.
Hmmmm. Has me thinking about a directory of our own members and different ways to present that.
Yeah I know it’s not easy. There is Fedidevs for the tech crowd https://fedidevs.com/ and I came across promise of it as a pixelfed feature in late 2024.
Do all users in this discourse have as usernames the same user they are on cosocial.ca? It could become pretty easy as any user id can be made into a hyperlink to a mastodon profile, perhaps built into the Discourse profile?
On the disource community I run elsewhere, of it gets messy. I have a custom field that we ask for a Fediverse user name, but thole whole double @ convention trips people up and/or despite my clear instructions, people end up typing all kinds of things in the box.
I end up running Data Explorer calls to extract any users with something edited.
