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 threadRivikahNov 26, 2022

@antimnguyen in about 6 weeks I'm going to turn off all boosts, because they're pretty annoying really.

I really wish we had QTs to play the discovery role though. I want to be able to hear my follows saying "read this because it's about that" and boosts do not give that context telling me why I should read.

Show threadAn-Tim Nguyen 
@Rivikah Quote toots were not implemented for anti-toxicity social design reasons, the developers expect us to simply write a regular post with the post/thread link pasted in it instead to serve the same purpose.
Nov 26, 2022 at 8:00amWeb
Show threadRivikahNov 26, 2022
@antimnguyen oh I've heard it explained repeatedly. I think it's probably nonsense.