@darius but how will I know how people feel about quotetoots‽ 😂 😭

@darius The tooot client now also supports hiding boosts. It’s totally changed my timeline, for the better.

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I can't find that setting.

@darius I've been trying a 3-valued hide|include|only option.

This UX, with no images and formatted text, optimizes for scanning. I thought I'd want `hide` to be the default, but so far I'm still using `include` first, for an overview, then switching to `hide`. I'm not yet sure whether or how `only` is worth keeping as an option!

@darius I cannot stand contextless boosts. They just feel like ads.

@darius oh the irony of boosting this advice. Much appreciated, so far I've only been disabling boosts for (so many) individuals. This makes it easier, cleaner, and quickly undoable!

@darius Somewhat ironically, I boosted this… I don’t mind “the discourse” but it’s good to easily toggle it off, this is a solid tip.

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And here is Yet Another example of how the quote-post issue is going to result in the further Balkanization (google it) of Mastodon

I see no "turn off boosts globally" in either toot! on iOS or in a Brave browser tab on my desktop anywhere on my home timeline, either on iOS or Brave/Ubuntu Linux desktop

How much more fragmented (believe the technical term is "forked") will the Mastodon distro have to become just to please a couple very pissy Famous People over here from Twitter?

@darius boosting this metaboost metadiscourse

@darius this is pinworthy

@darius I shall boost this ironically.

@darius oooh I didn’t realize you could do this for home nice

@darius @ashfurrow but I was told adding QTs would be a problem and cause this…

@darius thanks for the tip!

- A new user

@darius one day mute for all participants works too

@darius This is very helpful to know. Thank you!

@darius So, I have been surprised by the (seeming) backlash against what is termed "quote tweets" elsewhere, and I wonder if a similar feature were to emerge here, if people who abhorred it couldn't manage to turn it off the same way. Thank you for this tip, by the way, that I had not known about.

@darius This thread is getting a bookmark.

@darius You can also hide boosts from individual accounts.

@darius My feed today was stuffed with annoying (to me) #caturday posts so I finally added my first word blocker - works amazingly well!

@darius is mastodon now big enough that we have discourse every day ? Is there also main characters ? (Joke aside, it's interesting to see that maybe difference between twitter and mastodon was because of critical mass not reached)

@darius @thelaughingmuse Excellent advice. One thing I love about Mona is I can long-press a single word in a post and be given the option of muting that word without having to go through my settings page. Hella convenient. 👍