After a week of using Mastodon, I think the feature I'd like to see the most is some way to restrict the service from showing me the same boosted post repeatedly.
For example, let's say I boost a post. I will see it in my timeline. A person I am following boosts it too. I see it again. Another person I am following boosts it as well. I see it again. And so on.
Ideally, once I boost it, it shouldn't come up in my home timeline again.
A relatively simple way to implement this: add an option available to any app (usually through the "..." link in the post) to "mute boosts of this post." That means I won't be able to see boosts of that particular post, but I won't have to mute the original poster or the person who boosted it.
It takes a bit more effort from the user, but I think it's still an improvement, and probably easier to implement than a fancier, automatic solution.
@keithjones I don't see that! Here's my menu on a boosted post. "Filter this post" doesn't work for what I want, as it gives me a menu where I can enter keywords, but doesn't let me filter just a specific post (I assume).
Maybe it's something that your server has, and mine doesn't?
Gil Hova
Keith Jones