Any chance of copying the user-curated starterpack idea?

one useful feature that Bluesy pioneered was a tool that allowed users to make lists of accounts they follow that they could then share with other users . It's easier than just telling people to click on a bunch of accounts to follow, one by one.

People used this tool to make starter packs for things like 'accounts posting about my country/in my non-english language', groups of specific kinds of academics posting on bluesy, specific kinds of music accounts, etc.

Any chance this could be implemented for communities>? This would make it a sort of user-curated discovery alternative to algorithms and a way around some of the limitations of search*

Obviously you'd have to watch out for spam, so maybe for financial or NSFW communities there could be some kind of extra spam filter overview on the process so you didn't just get scammers making 'top crypto community' starter packs filled with their own scam communities or something, but this seems like a solvable problem.

*for an example of the 'discovery by search' problem:

On reddit your search results for any topic are usually polluted by NSFW subs with that thing in the name. That might be fine for NSFW or sex-adjacent searches but it hits things like music subs and goth and punk and women's and fashion stuff particularly annoyingly..

also a typical person probably searches for one or two terms and stops- so for instance in my Digg music community I cover country music, alt-country, indie folk, and bluegrass, and people who are actually in that scene in the real world would understand that these things all go together under one large umbrella, but a search for 'bluegrass' does not. The typical user who is for example alt-country-curious might just search (on Reddit for instance) for a single artist or for 'outlaw country' or something, and might miss all the other subreddits where this sort of indie music is discussed. If I personally made a starter pack to introduce people to communities for this kind of music topic, it would look a lot more like the large umbrella , or it might include content about playing the instruments too.

I know that searches usually involve an algorithm that suggests related content, but my experience is that it also tends to funnel people into the "most popular" thing that then flattens the experience. For instance Spotify's searches always show me the same top xyzy number of artists for my taste versus music blogs/YouTube channels with human curators show me new and emerging music far better than a search algorithm does.

Some version of starter packs is a democratized/decentralized alternative to an algorithm.