[feature] Hide boosts from account and/or timeline

[zladuric]

Is your feature request related to a problem ?

I would sometimes like to have a timeline show me only "original content", not boosts from the people I follow. I understand that we may have two or even three issues, but I just want to document my thoughts so far.

[Problem 1]: Currently I have this workaround on the API level: for aperson I follow, I need to unfollow, then follow with { "reblogs": false } parameter set, which is highly inconvenient (and will probably spam them and help them decide to block me).

[Possible side issue 2/bug]: The UI I use, Pinafore, lets me click the "Hide boosts from " on user's profile, and POSTs to the same accounts/:id/follow with reblogs: false, but this does not update anything on the account. I'm not sure if this is the intended result.

[Problem 3]: Additionally to that, I would also like the timeline endpoints to let me choose between a clean and a "boosted by boosts" version, regardless of the individual account settings.

Describe the solution you'd like.

1. I would like either:

• a) the POST to accounts/:id/follow would respect the change in reblogs flag,
• b) or that I get a new endpoint, PATCH accounts/:id/follow, accounts/:id/relations or something similar that lets me flip that option.

The first thing would probably be better for now, even if semantically not clean, because Pinafore and possibly other clients work like this already.

2. [Optional] I would like the show_reblogs parameter on the timeline/public and timeline/home endpoints to let me choose if I want boosts or just original posts and their replies. Not sure how this would work out in regards to people I follow posting replies - it's not a boost but a reply, but I don't remember if the toot API lets us distinguish between those.

Describe alternatives you've considered.

NONE

Additional context.

I like your work, people. I am opening tickets left and right these days, since I started self-hosting GTS, and you're very proactive in triaging them. Even though you said clearly that this is alpha software.

[tsmethurst]

Thanks for opening this! You can already apply filters with many clients (like pinafore) to not show boosts or replies in the home timeline :) So perhaps that's a decent solution in the meantime?

[zladuric]

Edit: Oh, I found it, thanks! I was not aware I can go into instance settings on the instance list page :)

It's not preserved accross my devices, but it works for me for now!

[dmacvicar]

show_reblogs seems to be unrelated. If I set it to 0 manually (sqlite) for an account, I still see boosts from that account.

[tsmethurst]

the POST to accounts/:id/follow would respect the change in reblogs flag,

This has now been fixed in https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/pull/1680

We still need to add some tests to make sure that show_reblogs is actually respected, because I think it might not be.

[tsmethurst]

Heya! I closed this with the above PR, which just ensures that the show_reblogs flag is respected properly. You can now update your follow by POSTing again to the follow endpoint with show_reblogs set, which is the expected mastodon API behavior.