With our most recent update, creating and editing lists has never been easier in the #Mastodon web app.

[gargron@mastodon.social]

With our most recent update, creating and editing lists has never been easier in the #Mastodon web app. Lists allow you to declutter your home feed by organizing accounts into arbitrary alternative feeds. And there is some other stuff we may be working on to make this feature even more powerful...

[leadegroot@bne.social]

@Gargron it'd be nice if we could put hashtags in those same lists

[aku@anakmanis.com]

@leadegroot

I am also +1 for this suggestion. At least it can also help if someone abuses the hashtag, and it will not flood the home timeline.

I do hope @Gargron will consider it.

[afewbugs@social.coop]

@aku @leadegroot @Gargron +2

[david_chisnall@infosec.exchange]

@afewbugs @aku @leadegroot @Gargron I came with exactly the same question. About 80% of the things in my feed are cats and dogs, and sometimes I want to just see the cute animals, other times I want to just see the things in between them.

The other thing I'd really like for decluttering my feed is to not see replies to a post if that post is in my feed. I unfollowed someone today because a huge amount of my feed was filling up with their followers replying to their posts, which they then boost. And, because the feed is in reverse-chronological order, I see the replies first, so if I do click on them I then see the entire thread.

But my number one feature request to Mastodon would be stop doing whatever you do that breaks open in new tab. Given that both the back button and opening in new tab are broken, navigating in the web app is far harder than it should be. If I click on a post and come back, I lose my place because the feed is refreshed in the middle and I end up somewhere random. If I try to open in new tab so I don't lose my place, it doesn't work (the least discoverable bit of UI: The date in the corner actually does let me open in new tab if I click on it, but it does so on the original instance that made the post, not mine).

[dalias@hachyderm.io]

@david_chisnall @afewbugs @aku @leadegroot @Gargron Disabling auto fetch of new posts mostly makes back button work for me.

Open in new tab always works.

[dalias@hachyderm.io]

@david_chisnall @afewbugs @aku @leadegroot @Gargron "I unfollowed someone today because a huge amount of my feed was filling up with their followers replying to their posts, which they then boost."

You can disable seeing an account's boosts without unfollowing. It's on the ... on their profile page.

[david_chisnall@infosec.exchange]

@dalias @afewbugs @aku @leadegroot @Gargron

Is there a list somewhere of all of the things that you need to do to make the Mastodon web UI usable? And, ideally, a way for instance operators to make these the defaults, if upstream won't?

That said, I do want to see boosts, I just don't want to see boosts of replies to a post that's already on my feed.

[dalias@hachyderm.io]

@david_chisnall @afewbugs @aku @leadegroot @Gargron Yeah but of there's a particular account whose boosts are annoying, just turning those off is a decent mitigation.

Not sure about a list because different ppl have different ideas of what's needed for best UX..

[puppygirlhornypost2@transfem.social]

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] personally the only way I can really take mastodon is https://glitch-soc.github.io/docs/ with https://git.gay/freeplay/Mastodon-Modern mastodon modern (wonderful theme).