Kevin P. FlemingMar 6

Is there anyone out there willing to accept payment for building a new feature in Mastodon?

In particular I want to enable server-side filtering of boosts where the boosted post is already available in the timeline (whether it has been viewed or not). From what I can guess, the feature just needs to check to see if the poster of the boosted post is being followed by the user and if so, suppress the boost.

If you're interested in creating a patch for this and preparing it for submission upstream (I'd handle pushing it forward but would apply it on my own server in the meantime), please get in touch.

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Show threadLukyan

@kevin Is this how the "Group boosts in timelines" setting works? The server remembers timeline positions of posts and does not insert another boost if it was recent enough.

It is controlled by the REBLOG_FALLOFF constant set to 40 which is vastly inadequate for my much busier timeline. I have it patched to 400 which somewhat works (one boost per several hours if the post is really popular).

Mar 7 at 7:48amWeb
Show threadKevin P. FlemingMar 7

@lukyan I don't think it's quite the same thing, although it is related.

Honestly, my primary use case is people who boost their own posts 8-24 hours after the original post "for people in other timezones." This is just noise for people following them, and in fact the increased noise contributes to the perceived need to resurface the post "for people in other timezones".

Show threadLukyanMar 7
@kevin I see that this would be useful and is different than the present feature.