If someone you follow boosts too much stuff, you can hide just their boosts from your timeline by doing the following:
1. Go to the person's profile in Mastodon
2. Click the button with three dots (looks like ︙ or ⋯)
3. Click "Hide Boosts" or "Hide Reblogs" (they mean the same thing)
The person will not know you've done this, and it won't hide their own posts.
If you change your mind and want to see their boosts, repeat the same process but select "Show boosts".
I've found that the panphy.social client handles boosts really well. The devs have implemented a "Boost Carousel" that will show up in the home timeline every so often with several of the recent boosts from folks I follow, with arrow buttons to scroll through 5, 10 or 20 boosts. It doesn't clutter the TL, and it saves the extra step of muting someone's boosts. #panphy
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Yeah... it wasn't until after I posted it that I realized what I'd done. But it was done, so... 🤷♂️🤦♂️
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Yeah, I boosted before the image had even properly loaded in on my end, but at least we're all on the same page with phanphy. Liking the updated image better, though. 😉
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I edited it.
It's far less politically charged and twice as terrifying.
Unfortunately not, sorry. It isn't included on the standard mute list.
1. i boost this tip
2. but i boost a lot
3. so people following me apply this tip
4. so the boost disappears
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Yeah, nothing wrong with that, helps posts to spread through the Fediverse.
It's just in case someone wants to switch off your boosts.
That wouldn't really help here as it's about boosts by other people?
Interesting idea 👍
To some extent that's what the "unlisted" post visibility is for, it lets anyone see a post but keeps it out of public timelines so it doesn't clog them up. (More info at https://fedi.tips/who-can-see-my-posts-in-mastodon-how-do-i-send-dms-in-mastodon/)
Useful, but does not solve the problem of seeing multiple boosts of the same original post from numerous people you already follow.
I want to hide boosts in my timeline of people I already follow. Server side.
Currently, I hide all boosts in my timeline, to keep it more readable.
But, this still wastes bandwidth.
I learned to never follow excessive boosters. How? You check their profile. If they are just constantly boosting (like a many dozens per day), and never otherwse interact, then easy decision.
"Useful, but does not solve the problem of seeing multiple boosts of the same original post from numerous people you already follow."
That's a different issue dealt with here:
https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-stop-seeing-the-same-boosted-post-again-and-again-in-mastodon/
Yes, I saw your tip and noted that it may not work well because of the 40 limit. And, it does not work well. I can get 100 non-boosts per hour at times, so if I do not hide boosts, my timeline becomes cluttered with redundant boosts.
What would be best is to not show boosts of someones post that you already follow. And do it server side to save bandwidth.
But, from my reading on github, this has not been considered a priority.
If this functionality existed, then I could re-enable seeing boosts, and then deal with excessive boosters on an individual basis.
I agree with you, and so do a lot of others as it's one of the most voted-for requests on the github.
Unfortunately it hasn't been fixed yet...
My concern is that it is intentional to not fix.
Don't get me wrong here. I would prefer to see boosts. But, when you follow a lot of people (over 2k), then there are many redundant boosts.
My estimate is that my timeline can be fed over 1000 boosts per day.
So, I hide them to make me timeline readable. This does not mean that I have time to read approximately 1000 non-boosts per day, but still, knocking out about 60% of my timeline actually does help, even though I know I will miss posts because of available reading time.
Hello!
Sorry, I should have phrased this better in the original post. Just to be absolutely clear:
IT IS TOTALLY FINE TO RE-POST! 👍
Re-posting (also known as "boosting") is a bedrock of this place, it is one of the key ways that servers notice content from each other.
Don't stop re-posting!
The original post should really have said "If someone boosts too much for your tastes". It's a matter of taste about how much is too much, this feature lets people of all tastes co-exist.
You are doing the right thing fellow citizen LAF and LOVE.
The only approval you require is your heart.
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Indeed! My apologies for implying otherwise in the original post.
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