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.
@tsumami @antimnguyen The technique suggested has been effective for me. I would argue that the algorithms showed me LESS relevant content, on the other website, than I am seeing here.
I would rather scroll past innocuous but irrelevant posts for hours, over being bombarded with tens of thousands of words devoted to hatred, vitriol, and disinformation.
@tsumami @antimnguyen I will also add, the corporation blamed its algorithms for my account being marked "spam" and suspended, multiple times, when I was trying to report spam, and debunk, and report disinformation, which the algorithm actively stopped me from doing:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Qult_Headquarters/comments/yl4nwe/comment/iuwnm83/
Here is documentation of my last suspension from Twitter, that stretched from January 28, 2022, until November 14, 2022.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Qult_Headquarters/comments/yf9ofm/comment/iu3qnza/
Twitter Support only lifted the suspension because I sent the following evidence to reporter Alex Heath at The Verge:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Qult_Headquarters/comments/updkbo/comment/i8khufb/
Twitter Support's only response, to me, was that my account had incorrectly "automatically" been flagged as spam.
This is an outright lie as the foreign state bad actors whose COVID-19 disinformation I was attempting to fight and report were falsely reporting my account in large numbers; so it was NOT "automatic" at all!
Millions of COVID deaths happened because of Twitter's complete reliance on bad algorithms.
An-Tim Nguyen 
The Spoonless Kitchen
Tsumami 