Post #2345202

2024-07-30 20:38 UTC

So because some people are struggling with too many boosts in their feeds - there are ways to make that easier. In the vanilla Mastodon web client, there's a little filters button at the top right of the home feed. Open that and you get toggles to show or not show boosts or replies. Another client I use a lot is called @phanpy@hachyderm.io - what's great about it is that it groups boosts into carousels that you can easily scroll down past, or swipe sideways to explore.

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@sarajw@front-end.social 2024-07-30 20:55

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@christian@aldr.social 2024-07-30 20:47

@sarajw@front-end.social @phanpy@hachyderm.io Can confirm, the boosts carousel in Phanpy is super slick 👌

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@jfroehlich@mastodon.social 2024-07-30 20:51

@sarajw@front-end.social @phanpy@hachyderm.io I would love to have boosts grouped by post in a certain timeframe like one week. So if four people boost something, I would see it once and not five times

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@mogul@hachyderm.io 2024-07-31 03:34

@sarajw@front-end.social @phanpy@hachyderm.io You can also set your subscription to a user to show only their original posts, but not their boosts. There's not a middle ground, unfortunately (eg "X% of boosts" or "no more than X boosts per day"). Phanpy's "Catch-up" feature is great for this, though... You can peruse only original posts, separate from boosts, and you can see who is doing a lot of either, and just decide "you know what, no, enough out of you", skip reading, and then easily mute them for a while.

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