@Alpaca404

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Alpaca404Jan 8
Solarbird Jan 8

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
Alpaca404Dec 9

@ondrej @aloxe

This sounds like genuine hell. What is even the point of this? It'd take much longer to see and conciously skip numbers than typing while just looking at your phone.

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@slothrop @tferrer

"He urged people to consider hoaxes like this could have on real people"

At least the article isn't written by an LLM since it wouldn't make a grammatical mistake :/

Show threadAlpaca404Nov 30
@theforestbeforeus
Showing the beauty of nature through posting AI generated images of it is a level of irony I hope to at some point achieve in my comedy.
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@cdarwin
Huh, neat. I've never really heard of expansionism between subdivisions like states before.
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@briankrebs
Followers ~~georg~~*todd*
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@Migueldeicaza @pluralistic

Termination of transfer of copyright was going to be automatic after 25 years, but media giants lobbied to make it 35 with a ton of paperwork.

Why can't we have nice things :(

Show threadAlpaca404Nov 2

@DenisCOVIDinfoguy

Why do we care what a physicists says about epidemiology? We could also listen to the epidemiologists who say the same thing. I'm not super sure what the point of a headline like this is.

Show threadAlpaca404Oct 17

@JayinKyiv
Are people not allowed to escape their authoritarian governments?

I don't think a 'civilized' country should reject refugees simply because of their nationalities and the actions of their corrupt leaders.

Alpaca404Oct 6, 2025
JPOct 5, 2025
Using "supply chain" to describe open source software you picked up off the side of the road for free and jammed into your commercial product is like a restaurant calling roadkill "locally sourced ingredients".