Some ideas for a social mode

Instead of another Twitter-like, why don't we do something a little more like Misskey*¹ or Akkoma? (But, not Like That. Without the jank that's kinda inherent to Fedi.)

What do I mean by this? There's some great things you can take out of these. I kind of like the idea of a PDS being a community where you know your PDS-mates (instead of being like a suburban gated community where if you have neighbors on there, you don't know them.) How could we do this? The main idea I've had for this is making a "local timeline" like on Fedi, where it shows you all the posts by people also on your PDS.

On both of those server softwares I mentioned, you can react to a post with a custom emoji, as you can see above. But on both of those, the custom emoji are per-instance. This means that, even though most of the custom sets are the same, they show up as different, and you can't join on if it comes from a different instance*².

An easy way to solve this would be to have some authority publish custom emoji sets for this social mode. It might be individual users*³, it might be "PDS communities," whatever. But they publish the sets and you can subscribe to them. When you publish a react record, it links back to the set. (If this social mode supports legacy Bluesky posts, it might emit a like record at the same time as the react, linking to the react. This is how they accommodate Mastodon.)