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".
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.
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