There's a weird incentive in the Fediverse where there are a bunch of people I don't follow because they post 90% things I'm interested in, and other people I follow boost those posts, so I see the interesting posts multiple times without following them. Occasionally I follow them and then realise I'm just getting more copies of the same posts and unfollow them again. Which doesn't mean I'm not interested in them, it just means following them doesn't actually show me more of their posts.
@david_chisnall I wonder if any of the alternative fedi UIs have implemented a temporary de-duplication cache. Looking at you @phanpy
@jef @david_chisnall @phanpy it’s also bizarre that it allows you to boost your own posts.
That's actually useful behaviour for a couple of use cases that I've see:
The latter is necessary only because of the default view being a timeline flow, rather than something sorted by relevance.
@jef @david_chisnall @phanpy it’s not the only bug of that nature, Mastodon keeps showing the notifications available indicatot no matter how many times I click on “mark all as read”
This shows up a lot if you use tabs (which you need to because the back button is unreliable). As far as I can tell, the notifications icon polls periodically for the number of new notifications, but doesn't get notified of seen ones (by another tab, another client, or whatever).
@david_chisnall
I made a suggestion for Fedilab to actually use favorites as a 'read' mark (and hide them) like the meme suggests. Hopefully they consider implementing.
@david_chisnall its a good problem to have, imo. I noticed that phenom too
@david_chisnall I found the feature 'hide boosts' on Mastodon super useful for this for people I follow who boost a lot, but I really only care about their updates. I don't know if you use that at all?
Except what I think what we really want is a "hide boosts of mutual follows" setting.
@hl I don't, because there are a bunch of people who are 70:30 boosts:posts and I follow them roughly 50:50 for their posts and the fact that they maintain a usefully curated list of interesting things.
@david_chisnall that's indeed a bit annoying to have multiple time the same boost.
That make sens because mastodon is linear. But I would like to have an option to see post that are boosted only once.
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