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@FediTips@social.growyourown.services · yesterday

Click on a post's author to check if you're following them.

Click on a post's hashtags to check if you're following them.

Your timeline only shows these:

-All posts from people you are following
-Posts with hashtags you are following, even if you're not following the author
-Posts boosted by people you follow
-Replies by people you follow if they are replying to people you follow

p.s. If someone boosts too much, you can hide just their boosts: https://fedi.tips/blocking-and-muting-on-the-fediverse/#JustBoosts

NeatNit

@neatnit@fosstodon.org replied · 24 hours ago

@FediTips Thanks. The problem is that sometimes Lemmy posts get federated to Mastodon and none of those conditions hold.

It's possible that I followed those Lemmy communities back when I started using Mastodon, maybe the way they federate is weird?

Fedi.Tips

@FediTips@social.growyourown.services replied · 24 hours ago

@neatnit

It shouldn't make any difference what platform they are on as it's Mastodon's software which determines what ends up in your timeline.

Can you give an example of a post that is in your main "Home" timeline where you are 100% sure you aren't following the account and aren't following any of its tags?

(One thing that sometimes happens is people accidentallly follow an account while scrolling search results of accounts, it's easy to do by accident on some apps.)

NeatNit

@neatnit@fosstodon.org replied · 24 hours ago

@FediTips I'll reply here again with a link next time I see one.

Fedi.Tips

@FediTips@social.growyourown.services replied · 24 hours ago

@neatnit

Also: if hashtags are at the end of a post, they will be displayed in a smaller font below the post rather than as part of it.

You may be following one of these tags that are in the smaller font?

NeatNit

@neatnit@fosstodon.org replied · 24 hours ago

@FediTips Well, that didn't take long: https://fosstodon.org/@favogiuseppo@lemmy.world/115553260852664081

On @pachli (the main way I use Mastodon) it looks like the screenshot in my timeline.

Not boosted, no hashtags, and I don't follow the poster. However on the web interface of Mastodon it does show the linuxmint hashtag, which I do follow, so that explains it. I guess the problem is that #Pachli doesn't show the hashtag for some reason?

Pachli

@pachli@mastodon.social replied · 23 hours ago

@neatnit @FediTips This is https://github.com/pachli/pachli-android/issues/1551

Mastodon makes this more difficult than I'd like (https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/26518).

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Fedi.Tips

@FediTips@social.growyourown.services replied · 23 hours ago

@neatnit

You would have to ask the Pachli developer about this, might also be worth checking for a setting for showing tags that are at the end?

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NeatNit

@neatnit@fosstodon.org replied · 23 hours ago

@FediTips @pachli Also in some other cases (can't give an example right now) a post can have like 20 hashtags and I would like to see which ones I actually follow. Assuming I can't remember, is there a way to find out without clicking one by one and checking if I follow it? Maybe followed hashtags could render in a different shade from unfollowed hashtags?

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