Hello, #TheresLife!
We updated There's Life to use the glitch fork of Mastodon. It includes a few improvements and additional features that should improve the experience.
https://github.com/glitch-soc/mastodon
We experienced a few minutes of downtime in the process, but thanks to @josias and @jwinnie everything is now running smoothly.
The aforementioned administrators are now working on a fork of Mastodon that implements a new "neighborhoods" feature.
@realcaseyrollins @jwinnie @life Currently Mastodon has local timeline and a federated timeline. You either see everything on your instance or everything your instance sees. There's no in-between.
The neighborhoods feature will provide that middle ground. You add a few other instances to your "neighborhood" and they appear in a "Neighborhood Timeline" (possibly replacing the Federated Timeline). That is our first priority.
In the future, we will also add neighborhood-only posting, etc.
@realcaseyrollins @QOTO @jwinnie @life Yes, but this is on the server-level. For example, There's Life might have a neighborhood of counter.fedi.live, rcsocial, refchat, etc.
@josias
Could be useful feature. Could have more than one circle or hood per account and could use list of users from across instances sharing a feature theme topic geography etc.
Cost might be polarization andor echo chambers but we could initially assume less than dumb users will avoid using it wrongly.
@life @josias @jwinnie That sounds interesting, good work, brothers!