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If you follow someone who boosts way too often, and you want to see their posts but not their boosts, you can do this:
1. Go to their profile page
2. Click on the menu button ︙
3. Select "Hide boosts from..."
If you change your mind later, go back to their profile and select "Show boosts from..." instead.
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It depends on the context. Some people run accounts that are mainly boosting things, and that's fine.
One controversial topic is self-boosting, but this can be necessary for your post to reach people around the world. Because the timelines on here are mostly chronological, only people who are awake at a particular time are likely to see a post, so some people boost their own posts many hours hours later to reach other time zones.
Glen Gordon
@feditips this is a helpful tip. I'm new to Mastadon and trying to better understand the culture here. Which I have to say I prefer over other platforms. I take it boosting is regarded as something to be soaring to moderate in its use?
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Unfortunately not, sorry!
Lee
@feditips Is there anything for people who post way too often, and you want to see their high quality boosts but not their posts?
Mary625
This is me! I boost almost everything. I was told when I first started here that "liking" does nothing except let the person know you saw their post. To get people to see anything or show appreciation for a post, boost it. So it's a habit. Good bad or ugly, I boost everything I like 😁
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You could mute them and just look at their profile page when you want to catch up?
Delajor🍞
@feditips I'd love it if I could digest some people. If a person posts very frequently, there posts get consolidated into a digest every few hours or something.
SpaceLifeForm
Even if you do this, you will likely see redundant boosts that still clog your timeline.
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Yeah, that's to do with another issue, the anti-duplication system allows duplicate boosts after you have seen 40 other posts in your timeline. This was hardcoded a long time ago when this place had far fewer people on it, and the number is way too low for current timelines.
If you're comfortable using github, you can vote for this number to be adjustable by giving a thumbs up at this issue: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/18693
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However it is done technically, if it can hide repeated boosts that is what is needed. The thread has more discussion about this I think?
SpaceLifeForm
40 posts is too little, because I can get that in less than 10 minutes. And then the duplicates show up.
The problem is not simple. It is not just a matter of adjusting a knob. It will put more cpu load and memory pressure on server side to track duplicates.
It may be helpful to have a user setting that says do not show me boosts of a post where the timestamp of the original post is over 24 hours old.
Or 3 days, or 7 days. Let the user decide depending upon how often they read.
That is a usable knob that will not stress the instance, and save bandwidth.
Another idea: Have a button to flag that you saw it.
The software has no clue whether you actually read it or not.
The combination of the post age and the user flagging they read it will work wonders.
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Hahaha! 😀
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Me 🙂
FYI I boosted it
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You have to unboost something to boost it again, so that unboosting would remove the original boost.
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@feditips
Ok, so here's an edge case. Sometimes people boost their own original posts to cover different time-zones, and later in the week month as a reminder, etc. - will it hide the boost of the original post? 🙂
Nils Skirnir
@feditips But in Mastodon, it's the only way to get more visibility for something you agree with and think is important. Alternative is to like and comment.
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It's totally fine to boost things, it's a good thing!
This option is just if you don't want to see a particular person's boosts. It won't hide the boosts from anyone else.
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Not directly.
If there's a particular post which is currently being boosted too much, a workaround is to temporarily mute the account of the person who wrote the post that's being boosted.
Before you confirm a mute, you should see an option to set the duration. By default it's forever but you can change it to just be a few days, hours or minutes.
This would also hide all of the post author's posts, but if you've set it to be temporary this may be a good tradeoff.
Kathleen Lu
@feditips is there a way to hide boosts *of*? If I follow someone and they post something that is boosted by several other people I follow, I end up seeing it 4-5 times on the same day. Very tedious. I only want to see it once!
MarkG
I've tried this and it doesn't work for me. Boosts are still shown from the user that I enabled the "hide boosts from..." option.
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Do you mean boosts of posts written by them? Or posts by others that they boost?
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It would hide all the boosts, including if they boost their own post.
But it would not hide the original post, you would still see the original post in the timeline from when it was originally made.
And it wouldn't hide it if other people boost it.
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@feditips
Right, but this hiding boosts but seeing their original posts, would this hide a boost of one of their original posts? e.g. you have something coming up on Saturday, which you post about on Monday, and then you boost your Monday post on Wednesday, would that Wednesday boost of your original Monday post show up? i.e. I'm not sure if this feature is hiding all boosts, or only boosts of other people's content (since it's a boost of their own post)
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Okay, glad to hear it!
By the way, Privacy Badger works well alongside Ublock Origin, and they both play nicely with the Fediverse 👍
MarkG
I meant posts by others that they boost. However, it seems that I'm no longer seeing these. I'm not sure why it wasn't working initially, but fortunately now it is working.
It may have been due to the addon uMatrix, which I've since deactivated in favour of Privacy Badger (on Firefox). But, anyway, it is now working.
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