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.)
@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.
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?
@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.
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