Are you following an account that does good posts, but you don't want to see their boosts of other people's posts?
You can mute just an account's boosts without muting its own posts by doing the following:
1. Go to the profile of the account whose boosts you want to hide
2. Click on the ⋯ button on their profile
3. Select "Hide boosts"
(New people: "Boosts" are the name for shared posts on here. They mean the same as re-tweets or re-blogs.)
Whoever came up with boosts needs big applaus - cool word and cool took. And it's neat integration - ease of use, and factual presentstion - makes it very valuable.
@FediTips or do yourself an even bigger favor and hide ALL boosts from your home feed. I am on Android web browser so I don't know if it's the same on the apps
p.s. This option is only visible for accounts you are following.
If you're not following an account you aren't seeing their boosts in your home timeline anyway, so there's no point showing the option 🙂
@FediTips
I would like to see a profile without boosts to see if it is worth to follow. Is this somehow possible?
Back then at twitter you could go to the answers Tab. But at mastodon the boosts are there, too.
Unfortunately this isn't possible, at least not on the default interface or most apps.
You're not the only one to request this. If you are comfortable using Github you can vote for this by giving a thumbs up at https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/33574 and https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/10011
@FediTips boosts? I think you mean re-toots.
For some reason it was never called retooting, it was always just boosting... don't know why!
By the way, how do I unlink my mastdodon account from bluesky?
I don't remember how I linked it, although I do remember that I linked it (and no interaction resulted from this).
Block the account @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy
(you may need to copy-paste this address into the search box in Mastodon)
@FediTips There are accounts where I would like to get notifications of their boosts in addition to their own posts. Am I missing a setting or is this a feature that Mastodon doesn't have (yet)?
As far as I know you can only be notified for their own posts (by clicking the bell icon). There's no boost notification.
@FediTips I think that's a shame, but I'm not tech-savvy enough to make a note in the right place.
Thank you.
I've been wondering how to remove some of the things people boost without unfollowing them. This is great 😊
@FediTips This doesn't seem possible with Tusky?
@distinctdipole @syhr @FediTips Tusky does have this one, it's in the vertical three dots icon on a profile page. Should just say "hide boosts" or "show boosts" depending which you've currently got set 👍
@thegiddystitcher Thanks for the tip. I'll take another look 😃
@distinctdipole @thegiddystitcher @FediTips Ah, you have to be actually following them! 😅
@syhr @distinctdipole @thegiddystitcher
Yup, you have to be following as otherwise you aren't seeing their posts or boosts anyway 🙂
@FediTips Any idea whether the opposite is possible? At least once I wanted to see someone's boosts, but not necessarily their posts.
No, you can't do the opposite. Sorry!
