Steven T. DennisMastodon’s limitations mean it relies more on its users to surface good content. Search doesn’t really work. There are far fewer suggested posts. QTs don’t really exist yet. Trending doesn’t really work. So boosting becomes the absolutely critical way for other people to find interesting things. IE, if you see something you like, boost/RT it, tag people who you think might be interested, etc.
Boosts on here are what will make or break Mastodon. If people can find other interesting people and content, they will stay and the site will grow. If its too much of a chore, they won’t. Other sites reward lazier social media grazing, and they surface content designed to maximize engagement, which often = lies, hate, stuff that enrages rather than enlightens. Mastodon just surfaces what imembers boost.
peter honeyman@steventdennis ugh, i dislike boosts bc the folks i follow boost many of the same things so i see the same posts over and over and over again. i’m hoping @ivory will help clobber redundant boosts.
Phil@peterhoneyman @steventdennis you can follow someone but hide their boosts to avoid this.
"Visit the relevant person's profile, click the three dots icon next to the Unfollow and bell icons, and there's an option there that says "Hide boosts from @[username]".
That option seems to hide them not just from your current view of their profile, but also from your Home view as well."
Here's a screenshot from Tusky showing its implementation in apps. Hope that helps.
@Phil_C thanks, i’ve been doing that
@peterhoneyman good luck solving the annoyance,I also think you can filter all boosts on specified instances as well.
@Phil_C the updated ivory client tries to reduce duplicate boosts presented, so i just went through my following list and re-enabled boosts on the 10% or so for whom i had disabled them. fingers crossed.