@trwnh Yeah ok. I haven't been watching this kind of stuff unfold, but what you are describing does sound like people are faffing around with bits and pieces of stuff, with unclear and possibly inconsistent goals.
It reminds me of some discussion ages ago about 'starter packs'. The gist was that Mastodon should have 'starter packs', because they were very popular on Blue Sky, but with a more features... Like, there would be requests sent to the people on the starter packs, asking if they were ok with being on the list - and that then the list would have 'approved / denied / pending' status for each list item; and users would have special profile setting to auto-approve / auto-deny... etc.
To me that sounded overly complex. There are threads posted every day where users recommend their favourite people to follow; and that certainly doesn't go through any vetting process for approvals. We can already make 'lists', so surely just sharing one of those is enough.
And do starter packs exist yet? I haven't heard anything about it for several months. I guess that train lost momentum.