Mastodawn

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.

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simon gray Nov 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,

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WOMUMP

@simon @antimnguyen @GracelessHippo Other replies have already mentioned the "Group boosts in timelines" setting in the web version; unfortunately, it only looks in a window of 40 statuses for grouping purposes, so it's not very effective.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/12604#issuecomment-565055914

Bug: "Group boosts" not working (as expected?) · Issue #12604 · mastodon/mastodon

Expected behaviour Boosts in timelines don't appear multiple times. Actual behaviour Boosts in timelines don't appear multiple times. Steps to reproduce the problem I have activated this op...

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