Mastodon is introducing “Packs” to help you quickly find accounts to follow and fill up your feed. The decentralized social network announced the feature as part of the FediForum event on Tuesday. It will work similarly to Starter Packs on Bluesky, which offer curated lists of accounts you can follow based on categories, like verified users, podcasters, and journalists.

Mastodon will allow you to opt out of Packs, meaning other users can’t include your account in one. You’ll also receive a notification when someone adds you to a Pack, and, unlike Bluesky’s Starter Packs, you will be able to remove yourself from a Pack without reporting or blocking the user. Mastodon is working to make them available to developers of other ActivityPub-based applications as well.

The feature comes as part

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