Would you like #Mastodon to provide easy way to make *some* of your lists public and share them? (so you will also be able to easily follow other user's public lists) (By "easy" I don't mean manual export and import of CSV files, but rather web or app GUI - links in posts, in bio, or so)
@xChaos yes, but it would also be nice to edit them on the fly without "breaking dependency".
I mean, I want to follow list 1 but I want to unfollow subject (b) from that list. Also, when list gets extended with (c) and (d), I would like to have a notification or automatically add them to my edited mirror
@j4n3z it is not obvious, which way of implementing lists is correct!
I can imagine both ways - "dynamic" follow of someone elses list, which would probably work only on local instance (method 1), and "static", which basically means copying list of followed accounts and also following them (method 2)
Another difference between lists on Twitter and Mastodon was, that on Twitter it was alternative to following account and maintainer was able to dynamically change the list (method 1), but on Mastodon it subset of followed accounts (method 2).
I suspect, that the inability to remove account from list once the list was shared is the reason, why there is no user friendly GUI for sharing lists on Mastodon. But at the same time: we, the instance moderators, need to offer new users something, some content, not "empty screen". Anything is better, than empty screen. This is not good UX for new users...
And manually maintained lists seem to be better option, than algorithm.