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 threadThe Spoonless KitchenNov 26, 2022
@antimnguyen I love that there's no algorithm but this is very useful yes.
Show threadTsumami Nov 26, 2022
@thespoonless @antimnguyen I’m still not understanding why so many are opposed to algorithms. I’m starting to miss the twitter algorithm. I’m not trying to scroll through thousands of irrelevant posts I’m not interested in. Not sure how any one can stand that.
Show threadThe Spoonless Kitchen

@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.

Nov 26, 2022 at 1:04pmWeb