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.
Here is an additional tip for people following this account. 99% of the posts this account makes are boosts, but if you turn off boosts, instead most of our posts are linking you to new punks on BMorePunk.
This account rarely makes other types of posts (like this post).
CC: @FediTips
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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 The lack of this feature literally kept me from using Bluesky.
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@FediTips I boosted this and it will only reach people who need to know. Magic!
@grob if we're being pedantic here, there may be people who know how to mute your boosts, but choose not to, and — this message will still reach them
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@mo I probably couldn't fathom people knowing how to _and_ not having muted my excessive boosting
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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 misinterpreted what that option was for...
Is there a way to suppress multiple boosts of the same post and only show it once? -
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 this is sooo useful, thank you
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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 This is really useful. It takes a bit of work to keep what you see on M like messages from friends, instead of just a "feed", and this trick helps.
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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.
I'd like to hide stuff *I* boosted. I saw it, I boosted it. Why do I need to see my own boost (or anyone else's boost of the exact same link or toot) *again*? Saw it, liked it (probably), boosted it - for me, I'm done with it.
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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 love Mastodon
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I'd like to hide stuff *I* boosted. I saw it, I boosted it. Why do I need to see my own boost (or anyone else's boost of the exact same link or toot) *again*? Saw it, liked it (probably), boosted it - for me, I'm done with it.
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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
Yes, thank you!
This changes everything
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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.
Bong hits 4 Jesus. -
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.
