If you follow someone whose own posts are good but they boost too much, you can hide just their boosts if you want:

1. Go to their profile page
2. Click the β‹― icon
3. Click "Hide boosts"

(If you change your mind, go back to their profile and click "Show boosts" instead.)

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You can go further if you use the web interface + #Tampermonkey #userscripts. You can catch literally any unwanted posts according to the criteria that you set yourself. Yes, this is not at the server level, but just filtering in your view, crooked, askew, but it works πŸ˜‰

@johan

You can also use filters to hide unwanted posts with particular content: https://fedi.tips/filtering-your-timeline-to-hide-posts-on-mastodon/

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Filters don't work on user IDs, only on post content. So I had to code my own local implementation...

@FediTips Is there a way to do that for myself? Sometimes I want to refer back to an old toot of mine and it's a pain to find it in between boosts.

@tkissing

Yes! If you log into your server's website (for you that's https://mastodon.social) and then go to your profile, you can set it to hide your boosts.

Alternatively, you can use special phrases called search operators to search posts. If you just want to search your own posts include the phrase from:me in the search. More info at https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-search-for-stuff-on-mastodon/

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You can also do this on Android with Fedilabs @apps. View your own profile and select the Replies tab.

@FediTips Thanks, had no idea about that feature.

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I'm glad there's an option to hide boosts at all, but I hope someday that there will be a bit more options for controlling an amount of boost to display from someone instead of completely turning it off.

Like maybe an option for only showing the first n-th amount of someone's boosts or maybe displaying their most recent boost and then displaying their next boost n-th minutes from the one previously displayed.

@FediTips this one got lost in translation. in german it says "hide boosted posts of OP", which to me clearly means not to show me original boosts of OP if they were boosted.
@FediTips this changes everything
@FediTips now, now, is there REALLY such a thing as boosting too much?