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@silverpill @Tanguy Fardet Besides, not everything in the Fediverse works like Mastodon anyway.

I'm on Hubzilla which is basically the exact opposite of Mastodon. Hubzilla does not support Mastodon-style starter packs, but it has a feature of its own that can serve as something similar: channel sources. You can select certain contacts of yours and have everything they post automatically reposted on your channel.

So the trick is to create a new channel ("account" on Mastodonish, only that it isn't a new account because it shares the same login with the channel that you already use; it's a new, fully independent identity on the same account/login). You follow a bunch of Fediverse actors. You choose them as channel sources. And when someone else follows that new channel, they automatically receive all content from these channel sources. They can also choose to explicitly follow some of these Fediverse actors themselves.

I'd really like to see Mastodon users try to keep me from a) following their accounts and b) making their accounts channel sources. (By the way: Hubzilla users can keep other Hubzilla users from using their channels as channel sources. It's one out of many permission settings.)

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