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Follow + Hide Boosts is seriously one of the best low-key features of Mastodon. I use it all the time. It's wonderful.

So if you follow me or want to follow me but really don't want to see my boosts because I boost a lot? PLEASE USE IT I WILL NOT BE OFFENDED IT IS A GOOD FEATURE. IT IS SO GOOD.

Here's Space Catitude talking about it:

https://realsocial.life/@TerryHancock/115856401496102908

Basically "hide boosts from" is wonderful.

(Y'know what else is? Time-limited mutes. Goddamn I love that so much. I use it, too.)

#mastodon #features #GoodThings

Space Catitude 🚀 (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image I'm seeing a lot of concern over heavy news today and boosts. So I want to call your attention to a useful, but perhaps little-known Mastodon feature: If you want to follow an account on Mastodon, but you don't like the posts that they boost from others, you can hide these from an option on their profile (in the web UI) without having to unfollow them. There are many strongly held opinions on the "correct" use of CW and what ought to be boosted, so this can be a useful way to cope.

RealSocial.Life

I mean a lot of people follow me _because_ I boost like a mofo, I do what it says on the tin, BUT IF THAT'S NOT YOU WANT YOU DON'T HAVE TO SEE IT and that's fucking _great_.

and time-limited mutes? fuck that's good. purest "jesus fuck I cannot deal with your bullshit right now" in luxury automated timer format. mute somebody for a day, for a week, however long it takes until they flip back from asshole to funny again. love that shit.

Big Kumera Energy Jan 8

@moira i was quite sad moving to my current android client when i realized it doesn't have time limited mutes

@depereo so rude! hopefully it'll get them.

Duck Marshall 🚲Jan 8

@depereo @moira I think this is part of the reason why Tusky is still the most popular, it doesv almost all the things.

CM Harrington Jan 8

@moira @catsalad Yuuuup. Best feature evar.

Interpipes 💙Jan 8

@moira @Tattooed_Mummy tbh I would prefer even more, a "hide this user's boosts of their own toots". I don't mind people showing me things but I don't need them to re-show me themselves fifty times a day. I have a chronological timeline here that I generally read all of. (How else would I complete the Internet?)

@interpipes This "re-showing" helps me to think one more time if i REALLY have to boost sth XD Really, just bc i'm SO glad to have found sth it might still not help SO many others and those who are interested in the topic might already have seen it via following the hashtag in it or other sources.

#attentionEconomy
#aufmerksamkeitsökonomie

Interpipes 💙Jan 8

@Magda_93d I mean, sometimes there are good reasons to boost your own posts. Occasionally.

But some people boost everything they have posted, several times a day, a lesson I suspect they have learned from the algorithms of other social medias and/or they have a lot of followers who skip most of their timeline backlog.

Solar🌄Garden Jan 8

@FediTips
once informed me that if you want people to read a reply, _beyond those who follow both of you_ you need to boost it.

So that's why I boost my replies if they scope beyond the thread

Interpipes 💙Jan 8

@wavesculptor @FediTips @Magda_93d sure, that is one of the reasons to boost - replies would only be 'notified to' mentioned parties and in the timeline of mutual follows. Fairly sure this was the same on twitter. Those replies would still visible to an unrelated 3rd party if they click in view the replies.

What I'm talking about is people who make regular posts, not replies, and then boost them a few times a day presumably doing so "just to make sure everyone saw it".

Solar🌄Garden Jan 8

so we ⬆️ have similar small numbers of followers/following; I also have shedloads of hide-it-completely filters. how does someone following 10k accts, or with 10k followers get more than a fraction of the way thru their timeline? I regularly edit mine for this reason and do as Magda ⬇️ says. But you can see how some want to rattle their cages at the cost of rattling their peers.

[edit -- then there's also the timezone thing that multiplies with the flooded timeline thing. I'll be off soon, it's 22:30 local and UTC]

Fedi.Tips Jan 8

@wavesculptor @interpipes @Magda_93d

Just to be clear, this is only if you want people to notice that particular reply in their "Home" timeline and they aren't following both of you.

Your replies will be visible to others if they are browsing the discussion thread even if they're not boosted..

@interpipes @Tattooed_Mummy Gods, I haven't completed the internet since Usenet days.

The Tattooed Nonna 🧙‍♀️Jan 8

@moira @interpipes happy days https://hmpg.net/

End of the Internet

Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch)

@moira Both of those options are amazing and are perfect for people that want to follow me, but don't want 100+ cat picture boosts everyday.

The timed mute is used often on some of my friends during Monsterdon for an hour or two (that way I don't have to mute the whole tag).

@catsalad exactly! it's so good.

@moira
Amazing features I adore themm

@chillybot me toooooo <3

The Digital Coolie 🇵🇸🇮🇷🇱🇧🇾🇪🇮🇶Jan 8

@moira
Thanks for pointing this out. I had no idea this existed.

@Digital_Coolie props to space catitude for writing about it inspiring me to write about it. it's so good.

Jarrod Urban Jan 8

@moira I find it funny that people are boosting this post.

🙂

Ozzie D, NP-hard

@jarrodu @moira *does "the wave"*

@jarrodu ikr? I've picked up followers from it. Amazing. xD

@jarrodu I'm not anti-boost in general! But I do use it, mostly for accounts who boost a mix of interesting original material _and_ who boosts mostly toots I've seen other people already boost. Which is what makes it brilliant for me.

SolidHeron Jan 8

@moira good way to get followers because I followed you to play with the feature

@Cattail ikr? I'm like "...why am I gaining followers off this post?" xD

JillyLovesLife Jan 8

@moira
Thanks for the info! I hadn't noticed that little gem. Brilliant!

@Jilly5 So good!

@moira given the prevalence of "virtue" boosts around here, this is an amazing feature.

Henrik Pauli Jan 8

@moira I really wish I could see my own account without the boosts too. I want to see my own toots and look through them.

@phl I do that via JustMyToots. If you give JustMyToots permission (by including a link to it in your profile), you and others can see your profile without any boosts in it, via their website.

Here's my profile without boosts:

https://justmytoots.com/@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net

And that's also the link I have in my profile, which grants permission to display that.

JustMyToots

Henrik Pauli Jan 8

@moira Kinda feels like this should be an internal feature :D

@phl You could file a feature request. I mean, they already hide replies, they could add hiding boosts.

Regendans Jan 8

For those of you who want this as text that you can bookmark in your browser (The Mastodon post mentioned may be auto deleted after weeks) here's the same on the excellent Fedi Tips site : https://fedi.tips/hiding-someones-boosts-in-mastodon-without-blocking-or-muting-them/

Hiding someone’s boosts in Mastodon without blocking or muting them | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse

Torf und Schnee Jan 8

@moira Is there any option to look at the posts in somebody's profile excluding boosts? (Like, to see, what the dude really posts by herself?)

@torf The only way I know is if they allow JustMyToots. I allow JustMyToots by including a link to it in my profile, so people can see my profile without any boosts in it, using their website.

Torf und Schnee Jan 8

@moira Thanks!

@moira Whoa how did I not know about this, this is exactly the thing that I've been needing. Thanks!

@nicd enjoy!

Adrian Morales Jan 8

@moira But if I had turned off boosting, I wouldn't have seen this toot. 😅

@adrianmorales I know you're joking but remember, it's per user, not across-the-board, and meant to help you tailor your timeline. Nothing is a panacea.

hairylarry Jan 8

I don't want to hide boosts because I meet a lot of new people through boosts.

I do use justmytoots and I have a justmytoots link in my profile.

Sometimes I really want to check only the original posts and not the boosts because of time considerations. So I would be open to hide boosts if it's easy to turn off and on.

Also my server is behind on the upgrade curve.

How do you hide/unhide boosts?

@hairylarry "hide boosts" is per user, not across-the-board. The post I linked to included instructions on how to turn it on for an individual user.

hairylarry Jan 9

I found the Hide Boosts menu choice. Does it hide boosts on the home timeline?

I spend more time responding to posts than on the home timeline.

Just My Toots gives an individual timeline without the boosts.

Unless I'm C&C (confused and clueless) which is not unusual.

Thanks