@news whomever runs the News bot, could you please stop boosting every single reply to every last post? I only want to see the initial News posts in my feed, not all of the replies.

  • Chris@rabbitea.rs
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    1 year ago

    I assume you’re following from Mastodon? Unfortunately that’s how Mastodon works with groups - you see boosts of every single comment on your feed.

    You’re better off with a Lemmy or Kbin account if you want to follow groups.

    (and for the sake of clarity, this news account you’re following isn’t a bot - it’s a group)

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      1 year ago

      Ahhh. See, I didn’t realize the “@news” I was following on Mastodon was actually a Lemmy group. I though it was specific to Mastodon, and expected it would be a news repeater/aggregator. Didn’t know it would also include all responses to the news posts.

      It goes with a larger confusion on my part about how Mastodon works, I guess.

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        1 year ago

        Adding, I found an option in my Mastodon client to hide boosts from my time line. Which solves my original problem. 🙂

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, the way it works with groups is not great. There are news feeds on Mastodon which are probably a better option to follow from there.