If you're wondering why certain boosts get shown again and again, there is a feature built into Mastodon called "Group Boosts" which prevents you seeing the same boost twice. This is switched on automatically for everyone, you do not need to do anything to switch it on.

Unfortunately, it is also set to allow boosts to repeat after 40 other posts, and this number cannot be adjusted by users or admins.

If you're comfortable using github, vote for this to be fixed at github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i

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[Yaseenist] Nikola Orsinov [Joseph Grimaldi]

@feditips@mstdn.social
Honestly you should not signal boost github issuesy at least not to tell people to "vote"

I don't think the Mastodon Team cares to much about Github "+1" Comments

If you're not gonna make a PR, or add anything original and technical to the conversation, it's just spam

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SpaceLifeForm

@feditips

Unfortunately it is not that simple.

The server could do it based upon age of when the user last saw the boost. The problem is that this adds more complexity to the server to manage. And, there is no guarantee that the user actually saw (eyeball read) the boost in the first place.

I think this is best managed client-side, and that requires the client to track which post was boosted, and then would likely not be over 24 hours before it is aged out of a cache. Though, if you have the ram, you could make the expiry time longer.

Needs to be client side, but continue to waste bandwidth as happens now.

It is important that the original post creation timestamp is NOT a factor.

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