Here is an intermediate-level for those of you who have found The Content, but now have Too Much Content:

Many apps (including the Mastodon web app) let you turn off all boosts in your timeline. On the Mastodon web app you click the "settings" button at the top of the Home timeline and deselect "Show boosts". Then you will only see content posted by people you follow, no boosted stuff.

I like how the timeline feels following 1000+ accounts I picked, but not seeing any boosts.

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Darius Kazemi

This way, pretty much the only hot takes you see are the takes from people you personally follow. And if you don't like those takes, you can push back because you have an actual relationship with that person, or accept that maybe they are just going through some shit right now and move on with your day, or you just unfollow/mute them and never see their takes again

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Nick Doty

@darius oh wowww, just right now realized why I've been having this weird experience where Mastodon on my laptop (web client, boosts turned off) often feels rejuvenating and Mastodon on my phone (Tusky, no setting to hide boosts) often feels frustrating and depressing

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Miredly

@darius The irony of my boosting this is not lost on me

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dabl

@darius thanks, just starting here so that should be usefull soon. The most annoying thing for me in social networks is that they agressively push content I don't want to see.

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MouseAT

@darius It's certainly useful in some circumstances, and I'm glad to see this feature promoted, as it's not immediately obvious to new Mastodon users. However, I find it to be of limited use in solving the curation problem.

My issue isn't boosted vs. non-boosted, it's content that's relevant to me vs. content that isn't. Solving the latter will require changes to the Mastodon filtering, to make it far more granular than it currently is.

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Nick

@darius

Irony alert.

If I had boosts turned off, I'd *not* have seen this post.

You can use Mastodon like an email list if you want but IMO you're walking through a museum with your eyes closed and just looking at the gift shop.

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Edelruth

@darius

Here it is @toddo

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