 Here is an intermediate-level #feditips for those of you who have found The Content, but now have Too Much Content: Many apps (including the Mastodon web app) let you turn off all boosts in your timeline. On the Mastodon web app you click the "settings" button at the top of the Home timeline and deselect "Show boosts". Then you will only see content posted by people you follow, no boosted stuff. I like how the timeline feels following 1000+ accounts I picked, but not seeing any boosts. 14 comments
 @darius My suspicion at the moment is that this is the best way to use mastodon (once you've followed enough people that you like). Without some sort of sorting/filtering/searching/better lists to use to consume your timeline, relying merely on boosts and a chronological timeline is an awkward middle ground that #mastodon just isn't ready/capable of providing. I think this is a house/dinner party of a social media, not a replacement for twitter etc.  @darius It's certainly useful in some circumstances, and I'm glad to see this feature promoted, as it's not immediately obvious to new Mastodon users. However, I find it to be of limited use in solving the curation problem. My issue isn't boosted vs. non-boosted, it's content that's relevant to me vs. content that isn't. Solving the latter will require changes to the Mastodon filtering, to make it far more granular than it currently is.  Irony alert. If I had boosts turned off, I'd *not* have seen this post. You can use Mastodon like an email list if you want but IMO you're walking through a museum with your eyes closed and just looking at the gift shop. @nlarson830 yeah but it's a museum of 90% shit and the gift shop is stuff curated by my friends so.... sounds good to me Gift shop is just stuff your friends *made*, any content outside of the group gets filtered through them, yeah? You've abdicated control of your feed to whatever your friends bring, you have no original content from outside your group, directly to your feed? @nlarson830 to be clear: I follow news outlets on here so I get their reporting too. But no boosts |
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This way, pretty much the only hot takes you see are the takes from people you personally follow. And if you don't like those takes, you can push back because you have an actual relationship with that person, or accept that maybe they are just going through some shit right now and move on with your day, or you just unfollow/mute them and never see their takes again