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Tiny Mastodon Tip About Boosts !

First, yes! You should absolutely boost the posts that you like on Mastodon!

Boosting (reposting) is a very important feature on Mastodon! Because there are no algorithm to push content in your timeline, it is what others post and repost that you see chronologically.

Boosting keeps Mastodon alive!
Do it! Boost it!

That being said,
if you personally get annoyed by someone else's boosts, know that you have options:

1. Everyone should enable the "Group boosts in timelines" option. You can find it from the browser interface in "Preferences" > "Other" at the very top. This will hide new boosts for posts that have been recently boosted

2. You can hide all of someone's boosts without hiding their original posts. Go to the person's profile, select the 3-dot "Menu" button (in the browser interface, this will vary per mobile app), and select "Hide boosts from [handle]"

3. You can mute someone's posts temporarily (boosts and originals). On the same "Menu", select "Mute [handle]" then "Show options." You can select between 24 hours, 7 days, or 30 days 🤐

4. Know also that you are more likely to notice someone boosting a post repeatedly if you follow few people. Because there are no algorithm here, it is also a good idea to follow more people. Especially if you find your timeline too quiet

5. Don't forget to boost the posts that you like! ✨

#TinyMastodonTip #Mastodon #Fediverse

Wanted to repost this, so I tracked down the original and took a fresh screenshot, because it's important to share.

curious poll: what's your level of experience with mahjong?

Are you full of stress and anxiety today?

i cannot take words top and bottom seriously anymore

#OH Every skirt has a spinny, but not every spinny has a skirt

once again pissed off at censoring / sanitising language in subtitles. it's infantilising. I use subtitles all the time because of tinnitus and auditory processing issues, and I'll be damned if I want a bunch of handwringing prudish cunts fucking about with the language. censor ABSOLUTELY NOTHING in accessibility tools. I promise we're grown up enough to handle some swears and sex words, for shit's sake.

So the state of the browser landscape is that Firefox's numbers are ever falling, but there's a faction trying to convince people to move to Firefox on the grounds that Firefox allows full capabilities to ad blockers such as uBlock origin, whereas Google is making changes that will tie uBO's hands on Chrome.

So this is a really bad time for Firefox to initiate an (apparently accidental?) feud with the uBlock Origin lead developer.

https://www.ghacks.net/2024/10/01/mozillas-massive-lapse-in-judgement-causes-clash-with-ublock-origin-developer/

https://social.lansky.name/@hn100/113233527352627625

very sad that cohost is going. maybe its unique genre of posting, the css crime, will go with it. well, i'm glad that there's this worthy goodbye to it https://cohost.org/rebane2001/post/7910613-another-journey-begi

I recommend disabling this Paypal setting which will (if you don't flip the switch before 2025) result in your payments data being sold for marketing purposes.

Notes: The instructions say "Paypal Shopping" but for me it was under "Personal Shopping"; it was already disabled for me, but I don't know why (Canada? California?)
https://wasnever.cool/@schmutzie/113222747933501630

https://cohost.org/rebane2001/post/7910613-another-journey-begi how are people still committing the wildest CSS crimes i ever seen on cohost when it’s only gonna be usable for a few more hours. i’ve never seen people put so much effort into posts on any social media website in my life

A Discord is not a substitute for a website. Or a support forum. Or an issue queue.

Or really pretty much anything besides maybe IRC or Matrix if you're not worried about the openness of the chat platform.

Dear Game Devs,

Please please please let me access the options/settings as soon as the game loads.

Don't make me sit through a prologue, or intro, or tutorial of any kind. Just let me adjust the audio/graphics/accessibility options ASAP and then I'll look at all of your fun informative stuff, I swear.

On my knees,
Syl

Human, I request your assistance.

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#pico8 #Pico1k

https://itch.io/jam/pico-1k-2024/rate/2996632

Watch out for sparks, children

https://netizen.club/~wildweasel/updates/2024-09-23.html - on top of some readability changes (that you might have to clear your cache for... 🤔 ), today's Golfshrine update contains 3 acquisitions, one duplicate, several new friends, and one capybara.

GOOD NEWS EVERYONE! The Marriage Equality Bill has received royal endorsement and was published in the Royal Gazette, officially making #Thailand the first country in Southeast Asia to officially recognize same-sex marriage! It takes 120 days for laws to process here. In case you didn't know, I live in Thailand, my wife is Thai, and in 120 days we will be able to legally marry in Thailand, along with millions of other queer people who have waited SO LONG for this day. Love wins!! #LGBTQ