[@news](https://lemmy.world/c/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 t

Aimhere@mastodon.sdf.org to News@lemmy.world – 25 points –

@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.

9

You are viewing a single comment

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)

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.

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

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.