The one Mastodon feature I would like to see, more than the next 3 or 4 put together, would be: Don’t show me stuff I’ve already seen!
Or at least do it less. If something is getting boosted a lot, maybe a maximum of once a day tell me that it got 38 more boosts, including 11 of my follows. Even better, show it just once only.
@atomicpoet@timbray@phanpy Thank you for recommending #phanpy. Tried it, liking it so far. USP for me is that it has a menu item that lists the hashtags that I follow.
Wow, my initial impression is excellent! Start at: phanpy.social
Includes everything I want, excludes lots of junk that I don’t. Easy on the eyes. I’m sure there will be flies in the ointment eventually, but seriously considering adopting this as my everyday web client.
@timbray This is a client feature that has little to nothing to do with the Mastodon service. Get some clients to implement it, then if it's popular and useful it would be more likely to make it into the baseline clients.
@timbray There’s a github issue considering this topic: Option to limit boosts in timeline better by setting the falloff in "Group Boosts". Maybe you want to consider giving it a 👍🏻 https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/18693
@timbray The feature I'd really like to see is "don't show me a huge color gradient rectangle in place of an image when I have explicitly said that I don't want to see images". Followed closely by "remember that I've already clicked on 'show this image' and don't make me click it again in every view".
@timbray This is a Mastodon bug. There's a method, but it only looks at a 40 post window. I have a pinned post linking to the issue described at Github.
@timbray It's not an issue for me using the "Group boosts in timeline" option, but I also hide boosts from anyone who boosts too often (unless it's consistently interesting to me).
@timbray I guess the difference must be my liberal use of the "Hide boosts from…" option, then.
There is a misguided piece of Mastodon new-user advice that one should always boost instead of favouriting. 😟 <5% of ppl I follow do that, but that small percentage is enough to spam up my timeline with trivial boosts.
@timbray I have wanted that "squelcher" for years (on Twitter). And on Masto, not just boosts, but notifies as well. It's on the list of things to lab test in our mother of all extensions. But I would like to see it in AP core, not just Mastodon.
The option available in the web app I believe removes duplicates on the server side, and should therefore translate into all clients.
However, it’s not particularly helpful, as it only removes duplicates for the last 40 posts in your timeline, so if after the 41st post the same boost can re-appear.
I’ve upped that setting to 400 on my instance, which js trivial, but hard coded in the source code, so not available if you aren’t an admin.
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