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Shauna GM Jan 19, 2024

My biggest complaint about mastodon these days is how easy it is to miss things in the flood of posts. A good problem to have! But has anybody solved it?

A while back I made a list of accounts that I especially wanted to see updates from, but there's no way to filter out boosts from those accounts so it's still pretty unmanageable. You can filter out boosts from your home timeline, but not a list timeline, I'm pretty sure.

Any advice?

Update: solved it (I think!) https://social.coop/@shauna/111783099957849233

Shauna GM (@[email protected])

@brecht @[email protected] Omg this is it! It's perfect! Thank you! I tried using phanpy a while back, but didn't like the boost carousel feature overall, so I went back to Elk. But that feature is exactly what I need in this use case. And using two separate front-ends eliminates the need to toggle it on and off. I'll just set phanpy 'boost carousel' to on, and bookmark this specific list, and then whenever I want *just* to catch up on the posts from people I know, I'll click the bookmark. Thank you!!

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mcc Jan 19, 2024

@shauna So— from a design/tech perspective, I *have* seen a solution!

Cohost (it's a Tumblr-like treehouse social network) has this cool "Following" page where rather than the usual linear feed, they list *people*. Two panes, one is everyone you follow sorted by who-posted-first, click one and see their recent posts on the right. This means if one person is posting 10x as much as everyone else, they probably get sorted to the top, but they don't take up any more *room* than anyone else.

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Jason Cosper

@mcc @shauna IIRC, #Shuttlecraft (a single user fedi instance) can do this as well.

https://github.com/benbrown/shuttlecraft

GitHub - benbrown/shuttlecraft: a single user activitypub server - join the federation!

a single user activitypub server - join the federation! - GitHub - benbrown/shuttlecraft: a single user activitypub server - join the federation!

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