An-Tim Nguyen Nov 24, 2022

While following a lot of people can populate your Home feed significantly, sometimes people (like me) end up boosting a lot and that can unexpectedly hinder your own experience.

So if you like someone's specific posts and don't want to follow their boosts, you can go to their profile under the [...] button, and select the "Hide boosts from account" button.

There is no algorithm on Mastodon. You have ownership and control over every filtering decision instead of some robot.

#TwitterMigration

Show threadsimon grayNov 24, 2022
@antimnguyen @GracelessHippo I want to see people’s boosts, because people’s boosts are interesting; what’s a bit irritating for me is that I’m seeing posts many times as different people boost the same post, repeatedly. It would be nice for an update to know one has already seen a post so you don’t need to see it again,
Show threadindri
@simon @antimnguyen @GracelessHippo
You can change this under preferences - other - group boosts in timeline
Nov 25, 2022 at 11:47pmWeb
Show threadTsumami Nov 26, 2022
@indri @simon @antimnguyen @GracelessHippo is this view on desktop or something ?
Show threadindriNov 26, 2022
@tsumami
Boosts are the same as retweets. Only way to get others to see posts you like. You should see everything people you follow are boosting unless specifically turned off.
Show threadlesp88Nov 26, 2022
@simon @antimnguyen @indri @GracelessHippo I have this setting turned on but I definitely still encounter this problem 😕
Show threadDoug Massey ✅Nov 28, 2022
@indri @antimnguyen @GracelessHippo @simon and your server admin can increase the length of time (or posts not sure which) before you might see them again - but that applies to everyone on your server
Show threadsimon grayNov 28, 2022
@GracelessHippo @indri @antimnguyen @b1keridingpinko Fortunately I’m my server admin, but it’s seeming this feature doesn’t actually work as described, unfortunately! I’m seeing other workarounds along the lines of muting, but they have their own issue. Does a toot have its own GUID across all instances?
Show threadDoug Massey ✅Nov 28, 2022
@GracelessHippo @antimnguyen @indri @simon Unfortunately I don't know the technical side of this and I should have bookmarked the toot I saw. It described that setting that is available to us as a user as hiding boosts for so many toots in our feed and that the admin can increase that number. If you're a user following lots of people the default number is too low and so that's why you end up seeing the boosts again.