One of the more annoying things for me about mastodon is that I see the same boosted entry multiple times in my timeline - sometimes directly stacked next to each other. Is that an obvious thing for me to tune in my settings maybe?
@kofanchen@horst yes, this should help, although it’s not 100% efficient but that’s the best we have for now I think.
In some apps (eg IceCubes) you can also toggle boosts on-off, but I know that’s not exactly what you want either..
@horst Phanpy is good for quick scanning but slightly awkward layout as via Firefox/Chrome shortcut in Android but very useful as PC browser
🙏 @elduvelle the image included some of your boost 😁
@horst we actually discussed this point in the instance’s discord some time ago. It is definitely something we want to fix but I don’t know what the current status of it is so I’ve revived the thread there - will let you know if I have news, or you can check yourself (link to our discord should be in the “announcements”)
@horst well you should have a “home” timeline which shows posts from everyone you follow (including if they are on our instance (neuromatch.social) or not) and then a “local” (or “this server”) timeline which shows posts from anyone in our instance (regardless if you follow them or not) and then there is the federated timeline (which can be called “other servers”) and shows a bunch of stuff.
So I’m wondering if you have the boost issue on the local only or on other timelines too?
@elduvelle I seem to see this problem mostly with boosts from posts from other servers (just scrolled through my timeline), e.g. there is one post today from a user on @mastodon.social that pops up boosted around 5x on my local timeline.
@elduvelle @kofanchen@horst
Problem is this only filters home feeds, not local, which is annoying. Shouldnt be too hard to port that logic to local feed, but just havent gotten around to it yet. PRs welcome :)
@elduvelle PR - pull request @horst - my impression is that there isn't much we can do about it. which is why I had put up this poll: https://neuromatch.social/@socialwg/111756101150597791 (see the linked github issue there). Having boosts appear in local TL is a glitch-soc feature. we can turn it off, but people voted to keep it. well at least 8/9 ppl who voted.
@manisha thanks! And yes I don’t understand why people voted to keep the boosts there… boosts are not really a reflection of the local atmosphere IMO.
I personally don’t have them showing up there (but I’m not sure what I did to get that result - maybe it’s that I’m the only local person who’s boosting stuff and I just can’t see my own boosts 😅). @horst@jonny@kofanchen
@elduvelle @manisha@horst@kofanchen
I like to see them! I think its a per user account setting :). We can fix the local TL it will just take a bit of adapting the code that removes duplicate boosts, which would probably take a few hours
@elduvelle I too like to see the boosts in local TL but not repeated ones. If you don't see them in the local TL (not the home TL) then maybe it's some setting on IceCubes? because on the web interface, I see repeated boosts in the local TL all the time.
@manisha@jonny@horst@kofanchen hmm nope, can’t find it (account-specific option to hide boosts in local TL), but I definitely chose to do that at some point as I can see local boosts from my other accounts but not this account 🤔
(And not just my own boosts)
@elduvelle@manisha@horst@kofanchen oop sorry manisha didn't see you had linked earlier, didn't mean to be coming in here and just passive aggressively disagreeing and saying something hard was easy lol. i was just saying that from what i remember it seemed like a similar filtering operation could be adapted to the public feeds, so low information opinion. taking a closer look now.
this is sort of puzzling tho because i also see the instance-level "show boosts in public tl" setting but assumed since el wasn't seeing them there must also be an account-level option...
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