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peterlie2 Sep 22, 2023

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A much-requested feature added to Mastodon 4.2.0 is the ability to follow accounts in Lists while hiding them from your Home timeline.

To do this:

1. Log into your server's website
2. Click on Lists (on mobile it's an icon with three dots and three lines)
3. Click on the list whose contents you want to hide on Home
4. Click the slider icon in the top right corner
5. Activate the option labelled "Hide these posts from home"

(Note that this hides the chosen list's entire contents from Home.)

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p.s. If you want some general info about using the Lists feature on Mastodon, have a look at https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-the-lists-feature-on-mastodon/

How to use the Lists feature on Mastodon | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

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Flo Ti Sep 22, 2023

@feditips This is a cool feature - thanks :) What I would love too is to have lists for different sets of hastags that I follow.

FediTips has moved!Sep 23, 2023

Yes, that would be great!

If you're comfortable using Github, you can vote for such a feature by giving a thumbs up at https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/7692

Ability to add hashtags to lists · Issue #7692 · mastodon/mastodon

User can subscribe to hashtags adding them to the lists. I searched or browsed the repo’s other issues to ensure this is not a duplicate.

GitHub

JDS Sep 23, 2023

@flowti @feditips you can do that with @IceCubesApp using their “Tag Groups”. It’s wonderful 🤗

Flo Ti Sep 23, 2023

@jds @feditips @IceCubesApp That looks cool :) Is it just for ios?

JDS Sep 23, 2023

@flowti @feditips @IceCubesApp don’t know, maybe

FediTips has moved!Sep 23, 2023

@jds @flowti @IceCubesApp

As far as I know Ice Cubes is only for iOS.

Fear Gan Ainm Sep 23, 2023

@feditips very useful article, thanks. Just getting used to masto.

Ed G.Sep 22, 2023

@feditips Just the thing I need!

Mark A. ⏏️ {FalconMarkSix}Sep 22, 2023

@feditips I thought this was available before 4.2.0? I've used this feature for a while now.

The great thing about this is that if you put everyone you follow in a list, you can make your Home timeline dedicated to just followed hashtags which is incredibly helpful.

I wish there was a timeline just for followed hashtags and their posts, but putting everyone in a list and hiding it from Home is a good alternative.

FediTips has moved!Sep 22, 2023

Lists has been available for several years, but version 4.2.0 allows you to hide lists from Home.

(Your server may have been running the preview version of 4.2.0 if you've already seen the Home-hiding feature there.)

Petr Nuska Sep 23, 2023

@FalconMarkSix @feditips Yeah, I'm missing this feature too and so are dozens of users. There has been a Github issue opened for some while (=> https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/20715) but none of the updates has tackled it...

Add hashtag to list · Issue #20715 · mastodon/mastodon

Pitch As of 4.0 one can follow a hashtag so that it appears in one's home timeline. I suggest that one also be able to add a hashtag to a list, which would allow people to curate list composed of d...

GitHub

Mark A. ⏏️ {FalconMarkSix}Sep 23, 2023

@petrnuska @feditips I've always thought about signing up for github just to express support for these issues (another issue I'm interested in is the one asking for .opus support) but yeah I feel like there's no point since nothing gets fixed/resolved/updated. 😅

Petr Nuska Sep 23, 2023

Btw, I started thinking about this workaround that you suggest ("... putting everyone in a list and hiding it from Home is a good alternative") but then I thought => wouldn't it mean that I would hide toots of people I follow AND use a hashtag I follow on my Home feed?

Would
@feditips know?

Mark A. ⏏️ {FalconMarkSix}Sep 23, 2023

@petrnuska @feditips The toot would appear in both the list and Home feed. I see it a lot when a person I follow toots with a hashtag I follow.

Petr Nuska Sep 23, 2023

@FalconMarkSix @feditips Thanks, good to know! I will give the workaround a try I think 😉

Mark A. ⏏️ {FalconMarkSix}Sep 23, 2023

@petrnuska @feditips Hope it all goes well! Reply back if you have more questions.

BTW you don't have to put them all in *one*list. You can categorize your lists (one for pixel fed, another for bots, another for organizations, etc.) if you want then press the "Hide these posts from Home" button in each list.

Lurkars Sep 22, 2023

@feditips @timpritlove war das nicht mal ein sehr gewünschtes Feature von dir?! Hoffe habe das nicht falsch im Kopf und der tag hier hilft dir weiter.

don Elías (como los buses) 🥨Sep 22, 2023

@feditips mirá, lo que estabas buscando @eco_amandine

Arya Kiran Sep 22, 2023

@feditips the new release is a bit high eh ;')

Thanks for the tip about hiding particular lists from my home timeline. There are people I have in more than one list. If User1 is on ListA and ListB and I set List B to hide posts from my home timeline, what happens? Does User1 still appear in my timeline because they are in ListA?

FediTips has moved!Sep 22, 2023

As far as I know they would be hidden.

dosix ✨Sep 22, 2023

@feditips I was wondering how to manage toots from groups just yesterday. This is perfect!

Dale Reardon Sep 23, 2023

@feditips This only works through the web interface on your server I gather? Would be brilliant if applied to posts your software app of choice was gathering via the API as well rather than having to rely on software dev to implement filtering, lists etc

FediTips has moved!Sep 23, 2023

I think it works on apps if they support Lists, but I don't know if they have the relevant settings available yet, so I'm suggesting people do the settings on the websites.

Also, the official apps don't support Lists at all yet, so it's only for people using certain third party apps anyway.

Your Autistic Life FR/EN/ES Sep 23, 2023

@feditips Wait? This is *new*. People were telling me about this feature months ago on pre-4.2.0 versions. I've even checked it out but did not use it.

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@yourautisticlife

It was on the (unstable) release candidate which some servers installed a while ago. This is the first time the feature has been in a proper release version that is being installed widely.

Most servers don't install release candidates, they wait for the stable release version.