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".

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Who owns Mastodon and the Fediverse? There is no single owner, it's a network of thousands of independent owners.

Mastodon and the Fediverse are made up of thousands of independent servers connecting to form a single social network. Think of it like email or phone providers: a single network made up of many different providers with different owners.

Servers on here are independent at every level, from technical to legal, with their own admins in charge.

More info: https://fedi.tips/who-owns-the-fediverse-is-the-fediverse-owned-by-a-corporation-or-venture-capital-firm-can-it-be-bought-out-by-google-facebook-elon-musk

You can automatically hide posts you don't want to see by using Mastodon's filter system.

Filters can hide posts containing particular words, parts of words, phrases, hashtags, web addresses or emoji. There are instructions for setting up filters, and lots of extra tips about filters, at:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/filtering-your-timeline-to-hide-posts-on-mastodon

Filters can be used to hide anything you don't want to see: offensive stuff, spam, topics you're bored of... anything. Some use it for hiding Wordle posts 😁

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