Seperate Home and Lists from filter contexts

[markrprior]

Pitch

It would be nice if you could create a List for something you follow (most likely a bot but could be a hashtag) and then use a filter to "hide completely" them on the Home feed. This way you could scan the bot(s) on a different tab while keeping Home more focused (and hopefully scrolling slowly).

Motivation

Some bots, especially news services, flood your Home feed if you follow them. Being able to easily filter them to another feed would allow the Home feed to be more focused while still being able to follow the bot.

[trwnh]

18955

[markrprior]

Certainly if #18955 is implemented then that would solve my problem but it seems a lot of work compared to my suggestion so it might be a longer term solution.

[jubalfh]

@trwnh #18955 is very broad; just separating home timeline and lists would help immensely.

use case: there are news aggregator accounts that produce messages in a manner of a firehose (and then there's cory doctorow); i want them filtered in a separate column, but not in the home view. there is no way to achieve this currently – filters work on both home and list views, and so does muting an account (which i briefly, and mistakenly, thought might be a temporary solution).

[jeremyhulette]

I’d like to see this basic feature implemented as described. Removing lists from home feed optionally would allow multiple use cases to be supported.

[paulp74]

Totally agree - I'd be happy for this to be implemented in one of two ways:

1. Either allow a simple way for users in a given List to be easily removed from the Home timeline
2. Or separate out Home and Lists from into separate checkboxes for given filter. At least in this way we could manually filter users out of Home timeline (but keep them in lists)

[JoFAM]

Totally agree, I've suggested this as well ( #22796 ) before I've found out someone else proposed essentially the same idea.

Imho it would be as "easy" as adding an option "home only" for the filter context. Now it only has "Home and lists", which is not always the nuke uption one wants.

[trwnh]

Imho it would be as "easy" as adding an option "home only" for the filter context

the existing "home and lists" context is encoded as home in the api and database. so it would require two changes:

• 1 (breaking): stop applying home context to lists
• 2: new context list that checks for some list_id param elsewhere in the filter

[benjhm]

Just to say, here's another who who find this very useful, any recent development on this topic? Alternatively #9964 might be a simpler way to solve the issue, without the huge task of #18955

[nfbyte]

Even with #22048 implemented, it would still be useful to have this (or ideally list-specific filters) for actually filtering lists dedicated to automated posts (when e.g. certain automated posts always contain specific keywords) without affecting the Home feed.