@hopeward Nice, I had bookmarked this info somewhere to look into, but your use case had all the info I needed. I just activated this on my list with "booster" accounts. Finally my neatly curated timeline back while still having the possibility to get engulfed with boosts 👍

@hopeward OMG, this is huge! I hated that I can't add people to lists who I don't follow, as some accounts I want easy access to without showing up on my TL. This is great!

@hopeward I find the list a great sanity saver. And sometimes it's a good tool for managing your mental health. I also take the news accounts that I follow and have put them in list like what you describe, and for the same reasons.

amd unlike Twitter, there is no algorithm to strong arm the content into my feed anyway.

@hopeward Thanks David, Im glad you enjoy Mastodon so much. I have similar problems and actually feel like a first grader on social media at the moment. (They're probably better than I am...). Everything is somehow overwhelming and I can't process my timeline properly. I must really take some time and check all those new options during my autumn break. Have a nice day!🍂☘️

@hopeward This is such useful information and I’m so glad you shared it. This solves several problems for me, and it’s going to help me segment and enjoy Mastodon in the same ways you describe. News for me is the biggest downer also, but it’s important to see, just in a more controlled manner. (I also am delighted to see the “show replies” controls in you screen shot.) Thank you, David!

@hopeward In using this feature but I can't quite grok the "show replies to" feature. Do you have any insight into what that does? It must be different that the posting option where we can restrict who can see your post.

@hopeward yay ghosted by even more people! But on a more serious note, that’s pretty awesome for people who put their privacy, security and well-being as a priority.

@hopeward nice, I used temporary mute for news accounts If I'm not in the mood. This approach looks even better. Thanks.

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So wait; if selected it's both a positive list (go to the list to see only list member posts) AND a negative list (don't show these accounts on my main feed), too? So potentially I can now separate all of my followed accounts by topic or other criteria?

@hopeward this is super cool, thanks for sharing!

Do you know if there is (or will be?) a way to add someone directly to a list? - as opposed to the current flow which, as far as I can tell, seems to be 1) follow the person, then 2) go to your list and 'edit list' and add them to it

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That would be a gamechanger. There was absolutely no point in lists if they couldn't do that.

@hopeward do people who I put on a list know that they are on a list?

@hopeward holy crap, this is a game changer. I've got a bunch of accounts that do mass-posting (like @pluralistic) who I want to keep up on daily, but who I get really annoyed when their post dump ends up in the middle of my feed while I'm trying to do a quick 5-minute check of mastodon between meetings. Thanks for pointing this out!

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Ohhhh now that's clever!

@hopeward this is a freaking gamechanger.

@hopeward I've heard about this & wait with bated breath for our admin to update so we get it! Without it lists are borderline useless (for me, anyway) but with it... a game changer!!

(I don't want to pester them, though, which is why I'm not passive-aggressively tagging them here 😁

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Absolutely, this is huge for me too

On fact I'm mumbling to prune all my accounts but one

@hopeward @pluralistic oh that is brilliant.

I was literally just thinking, god I love mastodon but it can be uber depressing seeing all the fucked upness going on in the world, I wonder if there would be a way to filter news... Except,oh man, I feel like it also keeps me informed, so....

And then this! Very interesting. Thanks for sharing!

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Thanks for sharing. This is super useful.
@randomgeek

@hopeward I shall call this the @pluralistic filter

@hopeward This is fantastic! I'd been wondering if there was a way to do this. Thanks for the heads up, I need to get my instance updated.

@hopeward Neat, I'm going to use this for people whom I don't really want to follow because quantity but whom I want to see elsewhere (federated timeline, answers to others' posts)

@hopeward Huh. Doesn’t seem to work for me. My new follows are showing up in my home feed even though I added them to the list and have the list set to hide these posts from home.

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Interesting. Megaboosters fill my Home timeline fast: I have to scroll by their boosts to see other posts. The new feature overcomes the problem by acting like a temporary mute, not showing these boosts in my TL,

But ... the Home TL holds a maximum of 400 or 800 posts (including muted posts). Megaboosters not only push other posts down, they push them out entirely. 10 of my follows posting 40 posts each leave nothing else in "Home". That may still happen with the new List feature?

@hopeward Brilliant! This brings us a step closer to Mastodon also being a useful alternative to RSS readers.

@hopeward amazing! I need to try this out!

@hopeward Holy cow, finally. It's been a pet peeve of mine that you couldn't follow someone and it just puts them in a default "Home" list/timeline, and you could add them to another one/remove them from the "Home" list.

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I'm looking forward to that too.

I still find the option below it confusing though. Like, why would I reply at all if "No One" is selected and therefore no one can see it? Seems pointless.

Maybe they mean "any one" and it got lost in translation?? 🤔

@hopeward I did this for a News feed a couple of days ago, and it’s brilliant.

@hopeward Oh, thanks a lot! I had overlooked this new feature and it will be really useful to me, for the exact same use.

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This is totally something I have needed. I follow some very active accounts that otherwise tend to take over the home feed. Thanks a lot for sharing!

@hopeward thanks for pointing this out, very helpful ☺️👏

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The official Mastodon app doesn't support lists, so that's a bit of a blocker still.

@hopeward I've had a look in Tusky's List settings but can't find the option. Perhaps we need to wait until the feature is transposed to the apps?

@hopeward ohh, that's right, I can just put people on a list. thanks for pointing that out, I have a mutual who is oversharing a bit much but who I like too much to unfollow

@hopeward that is actually brilliant to have a news feed, and not have it in your regular feed!

That’s great

@hopeward yea lists are actually really nice I use them also very active the next big feature will be groups :mastoinnocent:

@hopeward Thank you for sharing! I use lists quite a bit and didn’t like that the same content would show up in my main feed. I avoided using the main feed because of this. This is a huge win for me.

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this is awesome. I like the "Press" hashtag but THAT hashtag alone takes over sooooooo much of my feed I can't get anything else, and I had to block/unblock it to use it.

Much needed feature!!

@hopeward Had to go into the web interface to enable this setting on my lists -- seems this feature hasn't been ported to Tusky's UI yet.

That said, really looking forward to this setting applying to future posts on Home! Between enabling global search and now this, Mastodon's UI is really coming along.

@hopeward this is a basic yet awesome feature, something I always wanted from Twitter but...

Glad it wss added!

@hopeward Smart! Thanks for sharing, Dave.

@hopeward It seems like a port of exclusive lists from the Hometown fork, and I gotta say, "Hide these posts from home" is way easier to understand than "Exclusive." I'm a recent convert to lists on Hometown and they have made my Mastodon experience so much easier and pleasanter.

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I have had several such curated lists for months. I noticed the don't show on home option recently and thought i had just been overlooking it.
But in truth, i was not seeing much in my home feed except the recent, and the list was a "shortcut" to go to their home and see their latest, even if it was hours ago.

@hopeward Sounds cool. I created a list named mags and added Ars to it. And checked the "Hide these posts from home" checkbox. Ars posts still show up in home and "mags" is empty.

@hopeward this is huge actually

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Thx. Now I know.
Two things I'd like to see on #Mastodon (you there, @admin?) are:
1) to be able to open out the columns in the advanced interface (e.g. to fill my screen), and
2) to see a profile summary on rollover (the address alone tells me nothing).

@hopeward Oh! That second button is really fascinating: respond only to other members of the list. That really is giving you a whole different set off feeds, almost independent of each other. Huh.

@hopeward Excellent news, thank you! I rely heavily on lists (e.g. https://blog.jonudell.net/2023/01/21/working-with-mastodon-lists/) and was going to build that filtering into my dashboards but would rather just flip that switch. I've got nearly 20 lists, is it doable by API perhaps?

Update: Wait, it looks like flipping the switch for one list works for all? If so, perfect ... for me, at least :-)

@hopeward This is my fave feature in the new update. Extremely handy in curating my timeline!

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@hopeward super useful!

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https://mastodon.social/@jnbrgr/111278016002955813

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This is working really well for me, but now I want to be able to put the hashtags I follow into lists so I can do this with them. I know most of them are mirrored by a.gup.pe groups, so I could go that way, but c'mon! (cue Keanu Reeves on top of the trash heap in "Johnny Mnemonic"): I WANT FEATURES! :-D

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That’s a great way to use the feature.
It’d be even better if that got merged upstream and became a standard feature.

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Oh, this is a game changer. I need to update my documentation.

Thanks to pointing out.

@hopeward yeah I've been waiting for this feature for a while now, glad it's finally here.

@hopeward hi! Is this feature available for the mobile app?

@hopeward Thanks for highlighting - looks useful.

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Just tried it. Great! Thanks for sharing!

@hopeward This would be just perfect for "noisy" feeds that I want to just dip into occasionally. @Floppy - any chance of this being implemented on the mastodon.me.uk instance?

@hopeward Interesting take. I’ll put this in front of another set of eyes.

@hopeward I feel this is going a bit into the TweetDeck experience, where you can have your main feed and separate customized feeds, and I love it.

@hopeward This is great and I have wanted this feature for a while!

@hopeward
I use Megalodon. I am not seeing the "Hide from Home" slider as an option for my lists.
Is there something else I need to do?

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The next awesome step to this would be to allow followed hashtags in lists. (Not currently a feature.)

@hopeward
That feature totally slipped my attention so far, thanks for the pointer!
Although I don't have any specific accounts in mind right now, I remember that in my early Mastodon days I was trying hard to figure out a way to put people on lists without following them.
Will try this out at some point as soon as the use case pops up again for me.

LB: this is also perfect for accounts like me that post LOTS and might oversaturate your home timeline if you're not following too many other peeps

you can give me my own special separate feed now!!! 😁

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Was already aware of this but have not yet mustered the executive function to try it out. Thank you for the reminder though. :>

@hopeward That's so great! Thank you for pointing this out, I wanted this feature months ago.

Now, I wish they'd do that with hashtags, too. It'd be nice if I could put #trump and #uspol into a list, but then *remove those from my feed*.

@hopeward The ability to "Pin" a hashtag without actually following it in the advanced interface works with this lists feature nicely as well.

@hopeward This is an INCREDIBLE change! Thank you for highlighting this!!

@hopeward And now allow sharing of posts with an added comment on top (like quoting on Twitter) and yes! I have my beloved Google+ back. Just better, because.. No Google.

@hopeward wouldn't they accomplish something similar if they introduced tags? I think that's the modern way of accomplishing this. Tag people based on the content they share and keep a list of hose tags on top of your stream.

@hopeward Perfect, thanks! Just what I was looking for

@hopeward This is fantastic. I created a lists called * Bot list *BBC News and *Not Bots and I was using "Not Bots" instead of Home. .

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Oh sweet!

Thanks for the heads up. Thats been a little annoyance to me, since I already been doing up a list for just art but kept seeing folks I follow over on the main too.

@hopeward that's awesome, that's exactly how I want to use lists!

@hopeward iOS people favorite client #ivory by @ivory has support for this ✨ new feature 💕

@hopeward Thank you @darius for this feature!