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Do you follow someone, and you enjoy their posts but they boost too much stuff?
You can mute just their boosts if you want:
1. Open your Mastodon app or log in through your server’s website
2. Go to the profile of the person whose boosts you want to hide
3. Click on the ︙or ⋯ button at the top and select Hide Boosts From... (or Hide Reblogs on some apps)
4. If you change your mind, go back to their profile and select Show Boosts From… (or Show Reblogs)
@feditips Thank you! :)
@feditips Boosting this for my long suffering followers 
@feditips 0 or 1? How about reducing frequency, without eliminating? :)
@bruce_korb @feditips
Regrettably, it's implemented as "all or nothing".
@bruce_korb but then, how to choose which boosts to show you and which to omit?
@bruce_korb @feditips that would require something algorithmic to determine when to show / not show a boost, which is pretty against the core ideas of mastodon being no algorithms.
Computer programs are nothing but algorithms, so "no algorithms" cannot be a core idea.
Anyway, as an example, you could turn down the volume by, say, 90% via a pseudo random number. There are lots of ways that don't select based on content of the message. Obviously, it would be tied to who the sender was. :)
@bruce_korb @feditips okay it feels like you're being deliberately facetious but let me clarify.
One of the main goals from what I've seen is no algorithmic control over what is show. If you follow someone you see all their posts in chronological order with no filters to determine which ones get priority or hidden because the user didn't pay for exposure.
What you're proposing is counter to that. But hey: it's the fediverse. You can always make that yourself.
OK, let me give you a specific example: I like BBC. They have interesting stuff. Just not so interesting that I want 80% of my notifications to be their posts. I would be delighted to have only 10% of their posts show up. I'd rather not turn them off completely. If they can't restrain themselves to, say, a couple of posts per hour, then I'd like a random selection process to do it for them.
I should give this info to my pained followers. I’m a shameless booster.
@feditips nice. Just learned you can join as many instances as you like. What's the best way to manage multiple accounts on a SP?
Why should users have to work around what is obviously a bug of the system?
@feditips i did this too much times already
@feditips if only there was a client that had a more user centric view of the posts we see. Then it could separate a person's boosts vs their own posts and I could prioritize reading the later.
@feditips The problem with boosting is that it's out of context. No one else can understand it, let alone join in on the conversation.
@adrianmorales @feditips Why couldnt they just reply to the boosted toot?
If you click on the boosted toot, you will see the context within its thread.
@feditips Can I do it using the mobile app?
@feditips
Is there a way to only see a percentage of a person's posts? Some ppl just post waaay to much fluff - I have to use the timed mute functionality.
jin jiyan azadî @feditips Game changer! Thanks for the tip!!
@feditips I boosted that.
LOL
@feditips The weird thing I want to do is, I want to mute my OWN boosts from my feed. Wonder if that is possible...
@evilmicrowizard @feditips Yes just mute notices from that convo
Heh, I boost a lot. Thing is, a lot of what I would want to say has already been said, so....
@feditips Don’t people enjoy being boosted?
It doesn't stop you being boosted, it stops you seeing boosts made by the specific person that the profile belongs to.
Some people prefer to just see an account's own posts rather than all their boosts too.
@feditips
This should help my followers.
@feditips I should boost this!
@feditips You're talking about me, right? Right?
@feditips
Thanks -- this is a handy feature though I would prefer more granularity like just excluding these boosts from home.