it'd be kind of cool if we could limit posts to neighbourhood servers, not just this server or followers - and include adjacent faith based servers. I think the idea Josias? had for neighbourhoods was a good one
@rose_myrtle Fascinating. Would "adjacent" simply mean "in the same neighbourhood" or do you have some kind of adjacency metric (measurement) in mind?
Would this be a general feature, (i.e. not just for faith-based servers)? In that case, any given server could belong to zero or more neighbourhoods of different kinds.
I'm wondering whether this would require ActivityPub to be extended or whether it could be layered on top of the existing Fediverse and, if so, how.
@underlap @rose_myrtle I’d love that if it were to come out… it seems like most servers probably have other servers in their “affinity group” one might benefit from more tightly connecting with. We’re in that faith based group, but also have a fair number of FOSS enthusiasts. I’m imagining Venn diagrams of affiliations here…
@trbutler @rose_myrtle Would affinity be transitive? In other words, is my neighbour's neighbour automatically my neighbour too?
@trbutler @rose_myrtle BTW I suggest you work up a feature proposal to add to Mastodon's github repository. You can do that incrementally here.
@underlap 'neighbourhoods' is a concept where a server would have a shortlist of servers it considered to be 'neighbours', managed my the server admins.
If I've understood it correctly, anyway