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.
@antimnguyen Did you mean "There's no *evil black box* algorithm here"?
I know it sounds pedantic but at least within tech spaces I feel we should not use the word "algorithm" like the most people use the word "system", i.e. as something nebulous, bad, and, in the case of the former word, as something that should be avoided or even eradicated.
@gabri
I don't think that algorithms are inherently evil. In an ideal world, I would like to have an algorithmic method that is highly controllable by the end-user. It is simply that many for-profit platforms have used targeted advertising as a monetization method.
I don't think it is inaccurate to mirror Mastodon's statements that they don't use suggestion algorithms. But not having them means that users have to do more work to see the content they want. That is what I wanted to communicate.
An-Tim Nguyen 
Gabriela Noriega 🏳️⚧️ 🇧🇷