It’s funny how people who boosted early did it to troll me and the people replying after it’s been boosted a million times somehow think I was trying to get my post boosted 😂
But no, I was actually calling out how boost culture makes it so that I have to scroll through tons of context-less posts and try to make sense of them. It’s very tiring for someone who really just wants to catch up with friends.
@shantini Too many people are like “I must boost every post!” It makes for a noisy time line. Once figuring out the main culprits, turning off reposts for just two or three people usually does it for me.
@shantini I know there’s a Mastodon specific reason why people use it so much, but I hate it. I just want to ‘Like’ posts I like, not endorse and promote them with a boost
@chucker@shantini yes and I use favoriting/liking 95% of the time. Most others seem to prefer boosting, which to me is wrong. People boost really bland things all the time
I agree, it's a byproduct of not wanting quote posts because we "can't be like Twitter" even though other platforms have had it longer, context is extremely important.
@shantini I doubt it'll come to base Mastodon, but a way to turn off boosts from others would be a nice way to only see what they're saying without seeing everything they're sharing.
Sometimes I just wanna see what people are actually talking about y'know?
(I'm guilty of this behavior on tumblr but it's truly half the culture there and I never know what to say or how to say it)
@shantini could you set your default feed to show just the posts & replies of people you’re following, then check in on boosts after that? Or never check the boosts too I guess haha
I thought it was in others too honestly, but just checked and while you can filter in Ivory you can see just media and links, but not just replies and posts. Here’s a screenshot of what I tend to use in my app Radiant, and if you want to try it out the beta has a lot of fixes that haven’t made it to the App Store just yet so can check it out here
@shantini@jknlsn yeah, with Trunks (ios, android, web). At the top of your home feed, you can toggle between comments, replies and boosts, and the feed automatically shows only the stuff youve selected.
I actually use it quite a bit to only browse boosts. First read the feed with only the posts (not even comments) of people I follow, because thats what I want to pay attention to. Then when I'm bored or paying half attention during tv or something I switch to only boosts. People boost the most random shit on here, so its always a bit of a rollercoaster when youre scrolling via 'only boosts', but kind of fun
@shantini yep, implicit list and boost workflows should be part of clients by now and I'm always surprised these newer clients aren't experimenting more with taking that work off the end-user
@shantini I’ve been using phanpy.social - a web client for mastodon. It groups boosts into a “boost carousel” so if you aren’t feeling like catching up on boosts you can just scroll on by and they only take up one posts worth of space.
@shantini I've made a request on GitHub to allow us to create lists/feeds built into the timeline. So maybe we can put ppl that boost a lot in one feed and name it "spam" 🤓
@shantini since you are using Ivory: click the magnifying glass in top right. Click the filter button. Add a new filter. Make a rule for no boosts. Save.
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