Improvements to followers/following list items

[seanthegeek]

When looking at the follows and following lists of an account, it would be very helpful to Include the first line or two of an account's bio and follow/unfollow buttons inline with each list item/account. That way users can decide who to follow from these lists without having to navigate forward and back to figure out what the account is about and click a follow button. This is what third party mobile apps do and it is extremely helpful.

It would be even better to include the full listing of followers/following accounts for accounts on other servers by obtaining that list from the public API of the server for that account, like I do here in Python. https://github.com/seanthegeek/mastodon-listmanager/blob/main/listmanager.py#L146

These changes would eliminate a missive point of friction for users who want to follow accounts that are from many different servers.

[nolanlawson]

by obtaining that list from the public API of the server for that account

I would prefer not to do this, because from a privacy/security perspective it's not great to contact third-party server that the user doesn't necessarily trust (unlike their home instance). But the rest of the suggestions seem reasonable to me.