Mastodon，一个拥有超过800万账户和近70万月活跃用户的去中心化开源社交网络，正计划引入一项名为“Packs”的新功能，以帮助新用户更轻松地发现经过 curated 的用户关注集合。此功能旨在解决新社交网络用户加入时面临的“冷启动”问题，即用户不知道关注谁或寻找感兴趣的话题。Bluesky和Instagram Threads等平台已推出类似功能。Mastodon的“Packs”将允许用户控制是否出现在Packs中，并会通知用户被包含的情况，同时提供简化的退出机制。该功能预计将在Mastodon 4.6版本中推出。

💡 Mastodon即将推出名为“Packs”的新功能，旨在帮助新用户更方便地发现和关注其他用户，解决社交网络“冷启动”难题。

🎯 该功能借鉴了Bluesky的“Starter Packs”理念，允许用户创建和分享精选的用户列表，方便新用户快速找到感兴趣的内容和创作者。

✋ Mastodon强调用户控制权，用户可以选择是否出现在“Packs”中，并将能收到被收录的通知，同时提供比其他平台更简便的退出机制。

🚀 Mastodon gGmbH正与其他Fediverse开发者合作开发Fediverse Enhancement Proposal (FEP)，预计“Packs”及其他改进将在Mastodon 4.6版本中上线。

Mastodon, the decentralized, open social network with over 8 million accounts and nearly 700,000 monthly active users, is planning to introduce a new feature, called “Packs,” which will make it easier for newcomers to discover curated collections of users to follow.

The idea is similar to a feature Bluesky, another open social platform, introduced last year.

Starter packs are designed to address the “cold start” problem of joining new social networks. When you first sign up for an account on a new platform, you may not know who to follow and aren’t sure who might be posting about topics of interest.

Bluesky tried to solve this problem with Starter Packs, a feature that lets everyday users curate a collection of suggested follows. Today, you can find Starter Packs focused on nearly any topic, as well as those that feature top users on the app or other sorts of recommendations.

The idea was so popular that Meta late last year implemented a similar feature on its X competitor, Instagram Threads.

Now, Mastodon says it’s ready to do the same, but with some key differences.

Mastodon believes that users should have control over whether or not they will appear in Packs on Mastodon. It suggests making Packs an extension of the service’s existing account discoverability features. That means to opt out of Packs, you would disable the setting “Feature profile and posts in discoverability algorithms.”

In addition, users will be notified when they’re included in a Pack. On Bluesky, a user who wanted to be removed from a Starter Pack would have to report the pack or block the user who made it. Mastodon says it aims to offer a simpler mechanism to remove themselves from Packs, similar to how it allows users to remove their posts from the newly launched Quote Posts.

The nonprofit developing the Mastodon software, Mastodon gGmbH, is collaborating with other fediverse developers on a Fediverse Enhancement Proposal (FEP), which is now on GitHub. It says the initial version of Packs and other onboarding improvements should be available in the Mastodon 4.6 release. (Currently, Mastodon is on version 4.4.5.)