A much-requested feature added to Mastodon 4.2.0 is the ability to follow accounts in Lists while hiding them from your Home timeline.

To do this:

1. Log into your server's website
2. Click on Lists (on mobile it's an icon with three dots and three lines)
3. Click on the list whose contents you want to hide on Home
4. Click the slider icon in the top right corner
5. Activate the option labelled "Hide these posts from home"

(Note that this hides that specific list's entire contents from Home.)

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Ed G.

@feditips Just the thing I need!

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FalconMarkSix

@feditips I thought this was available before 4.2.0? I've used this feature for a while now.

The great thing about this is that if you put everyone you follow in a list, you can make your Home timeline dedicated to just followed hashtags which is incredibly helpful.

I wish there was a timeline just for followed hashtags and their posts, but putting everyone in a list and hiding it from Home is a good alternative.

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Lurkars

@feditips @timpritlove war das nicht mal ein sehr gewünschtes Feature von dir?! Hoffe habe das nicht falsch im Kopf und der tag hier hilft dir weiter.

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David Croyle

@feditips Very useful. I've bookmarked this post!

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don Elías (como los buses) 🥨

@feditips mirá, lo que estabas buscando @eco_amandine

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Firecat

@feditips no, we wanted hashtag to be added in list while not getting spam by the federation every time someone hashtag cat or cats in home. Why is this not a simple thing to understand.

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Arya Kiran

@feditips the new release is a bit high eh ;')

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KenWalkerQB

@feditips

Thanks for the tip about hiding particular lists from my home timeline. There are people I have in more than one list. If User1 is on ListA and ListB and I set List B to hide posts from my home timeline, what happens? Does User1 still appear in my timeline because they are in ListA?

#fedihelp

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binaryphile :clippy:

@feditips I've noticed that boosts of posts from folks on my lists still appear in my home timeline, which kind of defeats the purpose.

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Hobbits Wife

@feditips hooray!! When I first used lists I then unfollowed in the main timeline and the people on the lists promptly disappeared. Need this new functionality!

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SteamPumkin

@feditips I certainly like the idea but would personally love to see this extend to be able to add hashtags to lists too

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dosix ✨

@feditips I was wondering how to manage toots from groups just yesterday. This is perfect!

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Dale Reardon

@feditips This only works through the web interface on your server I gather? Would be brilliant if applied to posts your software app of choice was gathering via the API as well rather than having to rely on software dev to implement filtering, lists etc

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Your Autistic Life

@feditips Wait? This is *new*. People were telling me about this feature months ago on pre-4.2.0 versions. I've even checked it out but did not use it.

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