If you're following someone who posts interesting stuff but boosts way too often, you can mute just their boosts:
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If you're following someone who posts interesting stuff but boosts way too often, you can mute just their boosts:
1. Go to the account's profile page
2. Click the ⋯ button
3. Click "Hide Boosts"Their own posts will continue appearing in your timeline as normal, but their boosts won't.
@FediTips
As a notoriously prolific Mastodon booster, I for one, applaud your publication of this one simple trick for keeping boosts from specific people to a reasonable level in one's feed.
I wouldn't want people to block me 4 being a boostalotopotamus, and withbTHIS tip, they won't need to.
Also, friends know that friends boost mastodon posts to be friendly and to have them seen, too.
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I realise this isn't exactly the same thing, but there's a related feature which is on by default where Mastodon hides boosts if you have seen them before.
However, the feature allows boosts to repeat if 40 other posts have flowed through your timeline. This worked ok back in the 2010s when it was really quiet on here, but the number is too low nowadays.
Apparently this number is going to be increased in a future update, so it should further reduce the amount of repeats.
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@FediTips
I misinterpreted what that option was for...
Is there a way to suppress multiple boosts of the same post and only show it once?Yes, this feature exists and is activated by default for everyone.
However, it allows a boost to be repeated if 40 other posts have flowed through your main timeline.
This was okay in the days when Mastodon was really quiet, but nowadays 40 is too low for many people.
The developers are apparently going to raise this default number, which will further reduce the amount of boost repetition.
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If you're following someone who posts interesting stuff but boosts way too often, you can mute just their boosts:
1. Go to the account's profile page
2. Click the ⋯ button
3. Click "Hide Boosts"Their own posts will continue appearing in your timeline as normal, but their boosts won't.
@FediTips I wish there was a way to mute boosts in lists but not in the normal timeline, that would be pretty useful
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If you're following someone who posts interesting stuff but boosts way too often, you can mute just their boosts:
1. Go to the account's profile page
2. Click the ⋯ button
3. Click "Hide Boosts"Their own posts will continue appearing in your timeline as normal, but their boosts won't.
@FediTips Cory, we’re coming for you
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Yes, this feature exists and is activated by default for everyone.
However, it allows a boost to be repeated if 40 other posts have flowed through your main timeline.
This was okay in the days when Mastodon was really quiet, but nowadays 40 is too low for many people.
The developers are apparently going to raise this default number, which will further reduce the amount of boost repetition.
@FediTips
Ah, ok. I am not on mastodon proper, but akkoma. So this might just be one of the things that work differently for me.
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@FediTips
Ah, ok. I am not on mastodon proper, but akkoma. So this might just be one of the things that work differently for me.
Thank you!Ahh okay... that might indeed do things differently.
FWIW I've tried to have a quick look at Akkoma's documentation and issues but couldn't find out how it handles repeated boosts. Maybe someone involved with the project could help?
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If you're following someone who posts interesting stuff but boosts way too often, you can mute just their boosts:
1. Go to the account's profile page
2. Click the ⋯ button
3. Click "Hide Boosts"Their own posts will continue appearing in your timeline as normal, but their boosts won't.
@FediTips
Its a very useful feature, especially for those who like to boost every single post in a forty toot thread, overwhelming my timeline and making me scroll and scroll to get past something they may be interested in but I'm not. -
If you're following someone who posts interesting stuff but boosts way too often, you can mute just their boosts:
1. Go to the account's profile page
2. Click the ⋯ button
3. Click "Hide Boosts"Their own posts will continue appearing in your timeline as normal, but their boosts won't.
@FediTips Even more useful to me would be 'hide self-boosts'. As well as the 'hide posts I have already boosted' mentioned upthread. Anyone know a way to configure this, or if its in a feature request list somewhere?
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@FediTips Even more useful to me would be 'hide self-boosts'. As well as the 'hide posts I have already boosted' mentioned upthread. Anyone know a way to configure this, or if its in a feature request list somewhere?
The nearest issue for this is https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/21632 and that mentions the Pachli third party app allows hiding self-boosts.
(BTW the description in the issue of why self-boosts happen is a bit misleading or at least incomplete. Usually self-boosts on the Fediverse are done due to the chronological timeline, so that people can reach followers in other time zones. Some followers may be asleep at the time of the original posting and never see them without self-boosts.)
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If you're following someone who posts interesting stuff but boosts way too often, you can mute just their boosts:
1. Go to the account's profile page
2. Click the ⋯ button
3. Click "Hide Boosts"Their own posts will continue appearing in your timeline as normal, but their boosts won't.
@FediTips Can I also hide "public replies to self" for people posting daily essays that I _might_ want to read, but not want them to flood my Home feed?
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@FediTips
Bonus, but app specific to fedilab: You can long-press the home timeline (house icon) button to disable boosts altogether, among a few other settings.@letterbeen @FediTips hiding self boosts is especially useful, but unfortunately not available on #Tusky (@Tusky feel free to consider this a feature request)
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@FediTips Can I also hide "public replies to self" for people posting daily essays that I _might_ want to read, but not want them to flood my Home feed?
There's currently no direct way to do this, or for the poster to hide their self-replies.
Usually the best solution is for the person posting essays to use a server or platform that has extremely long character limits, which automatically hides most of the post in Mastodon.
If you are following Cory Doctorow, he has a workaround by using a specific phrase in each post of his self-replies. You can use Mastodon's Filters to detect this phrase (more info https://fedi.tips/filtering-your-timeline-to-hide-posts-on-mastodon/).
