Do you follow too many people?
Do you want to organise your Mastodon home timeline into several themed mini-timelines that are easier to navigate?
You can do this on Mastodon using the "Lists" feature, and here's a guide all about it:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-advanced-tips/#UsingListsOnMastodon
You can use Lists on third party apps like Tusky for Android or Metatext for iPhone/iPad, or on your server's website.
@feditips Highly recommend doing this - although I've found mentally adding '... and cats' to all the lists I made would be accurate, for lists originally named Archaeology, Art, Space, Tech or whatever.
(So many cats! It's great.)
@feditips Thanks, that's the easy part. 😀
But what does the "Show replies to" setting do?
Is it another filter to further limit the toot's visibility?
@ls @feditips as far as I can tell, it tells Mastodon whether to show replies from people in the list!
So if you're following Person 1 and Person 2, and you only put Person 1 in the list, and then Person 1 replies to one of Person 2's posts, that reply would show up in the list if you have the list set to "Any followed user", but NOT if you have it set to "Members of the list".
I hope that explains it?
What I used to do on twitter was create lists of accounts I don't follow i.e. things like news and local traffic reports and then my main feed was uncluttered but I could open a pane in tweetdeck or in the app for just that stream of posts.
Is that possible in mastodon?
@feditips I used lists extensively on the bird site. Haven't gotten around to setting them up here, but I will.
Is there any equivalent on Mastodon to the TweetDeck interface? Because that worked GREAT in conjunction with lists. It was my default way of using the bird site.
Closest I’ve seen is using the web version and under Account Settings, you can turn on Enable Advanced Web Interface. Then if on a computer, you can have a multitude of different Mastodon items open at once. So you could have a column dedicated to a list, another a hashtag, etc.
@feditips these apps really need a link on either posts or profiles that says, "Add to List"
The leaps and hurdles in the stated List Howto are hilarious. Yes, it can be done, but ain't nobody got time for this 😏
@feditips is this part right ?
"On some people’s Mastodon profiles you’ll see a padlock icon 🔒 next to their names. This means they have follow requests switched on for their account,"
"switched on" ??? Don't you mean off?
@feditips Oh, thats great!
Can I only see the toots of someone on a list that I create? Can I restrict the post to show there only?
Reason I am asking that is I wanted to follow @uanews for Ukraine war news, but they post every 3 mins or so, so I do not want them on my regular timeline or I don't see anything else than that.
Does that exist?
This method only works some of the time.
If the person is not on your server it does not seem to know that you're following them, and therefore you cannot add them to a list.
In this case, editing the list directly is the only solution I've found.
@feditips I've already created seven Lists, only to find that the right-hand column only lists four of them. I have to click on the Lists icon to see all of them again. Any chance that section might be expanded?
I tried messing around with the Advanced view, but I don't feel the need to see more than one feed at a time.
Thanks!
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