Reminder (or new info, maybe, for people who are new here):

Reminder (or new info, maybe, for people who are new here):

You can follow people and put them on a list that's muted on home. You know, if they're interesting but you don't want to see their stuff all the time. Maybe they post stuff that stresses you out and you only want to look when you're mentally prepared. Maybe you feel it's polite to follow back but they post boring stuff. Etc

@dillyd
Lists and Filters
**Are The Way**

Reminder (or new info, maybe, for people who are new here):

You can follow people and put them on a list that's muted on home. You know, if they're interesting but you don't want to see their stuff all the time. Maybe they post stuff that stresses you out and you only want to look when you're mentally prepared. Maybe you feel it's polite to follow back but they post boring stuff. Etc

Reminder (or new info, maybe, for people who are new here):

You can follow people and put them on a list that's muted on home. You know, if they're interesting but you don't want to see their stuff all the time. Maybe they post stuff that stresses you out and you only want to look when you're mentally prepared. Maybe you feel it's polite to follow back but they post boring stuff. Etc

@dillyd Lists are very useful with one drawback. If someone whom you have on such "hidden" list uses one of the hashtags that you also follow, such toots from the person/list will appear on your main wall. This is one moment when such hidden lists won't work properly. There's no option to add an "exception" to preferred hiding rule. Unfortunately hashtags also can't be added to similar lists which can be hidden as well. It will be great to have an option to divide hashes per their visibility.

@MartinaNeumayer
true, good observation. For me, that's a plus. But I can see it being a negative for other people.

A plus because, e.g., maybe I still want to see their #mosstodon posts, but not their rage bait political posts.

But of course people can abuse the hashtags and we should be able to choose which rule takes preference.

Reminder (or new info, maybe, for people who are new here):

You can follow people and put them on a list that's muted on home. You know, if they're interesting but you don't want to see their stuff all the time. Maybe they post stuff that stresses you out and you only want to look when you're mentally prepared. Maybe you feel it's polite to follow back but they post boring stuff. Etc

@dillyd Lists are very useful with one drawback. If someone whom you have on such "hidden" list uses one of the hashtags that you also follow, such toots from the person/list will appear on your main wall. This is one moment when such hidden lists won't work properly. There's no option to add an "exception" to preferred hiding rule. Unfortunately hashtags also can't be added to similar lists which can be hidden as well. It will be great to have an option to divide hashes per their visibility.

@dillyd I make heavy use of this strategy.

Add the people who post primarily political stuff to a Politics list, then I can dip into it when I'm ready and it doesn't clutter up the peace and warmth of my main timeline.
Put certain people into Too Loud. I don't look at that list very often...
And put others into Important -- I still let them show up on the main timeline but I want to make sure I see their posts. And this way, they don't get lost.

@MartinaNeumayer
yes, I would really like both of those features.

If I use a list to separate someone's posts off my main timeline, I really want them off. I don't want them showing up just cause they used a hashtag I follow.
And I would dearly love to be able to put all posts with a given hashtag into a list. Right now, all I can really do with hashtags is turn them into CWs or make those posts go away. Which is a pity.

@dillyd