Has anyone figured a way to create curated Lists of users on micro.blog? They would be account owned & populated. It’d be real nice to have a list of just Mastodon users or Aviation Geeks. Yeah, Lists is a feature I’ll miss from Twitter.
I looked at the JSON API and something could be cooked up with that but seems like a lot of initial work & would not be easy to maintain on the fly.
This cool feature could be built into the official Micro.blog client and third-party alternatives. Feed readers are probably your best bet if you want something right now. Most (all?) have support for tags or categories that can act as lists.
What @dave is doing with FeedLand is more or less what you’re asking for (and more) but for feeds at large, not just Micro.blog specific. Here’s an example.
If I’m not mistaken, @Jacob has done this. He created a Musicians on Micro.blog site. I asked him about creating a list of LGBT+ users, and he sounded open to it, but then I never followed back up with him But anyway, maybe he could help you out? Not sure if this is exactly what you’re asking for or not.
@UndamnedOne that’s an interesting solution but yeah relies on a 3rd party & another website to manage things. Thanks for suggesting that!
@sod yes, I think an RSS feed with categories is the way to go. NetNewsWire does well with that. If FeedLand goes to a non-Twitter login I’ll explore that. Thank you!
If anyone else is using FeedLand for this kind of thing, I’d love to hear more about it. It will probably be a while before we add native “lists” to Micro.blog… Maybe there are other API changes we could make that would open up similar tools.