Is there anyone out there willing to accept payment for building a new feature in Mastodon?
In particular I want to enable server-side filtering of boosts where the boosted post is already available in the timeline (whether it has been viewed or not). From what I can guess, the feature just needs to check to see if the poster of the boosted post is being followed by the user and if so, suppress the boost.
If you're interested in creating a patch for this and preparing it for submission upstream (I'd handle pushing it forward but would apply it on my own server in the meantime), please get in touch.
@kevin Wouldn't it also need to check to see if anyone the user is following had boosted it as well?
Another edge case to consider: what if it was posted before you started following someone but boosted afterwards? Still filter or let it through?
Do you also want to suppress boosts from old content, like if it is from a week ago? A year ago?
1. If someone the user is following had boosted it, that's why it would appear in the user's timeline in the first place. The filter I'm suggesting would be applied after the primary selection process for content to appear in the timeline.
2. I'd still want to filter it.
3. Yes, I don't care how old the content is, although I could see how it would be useful for the filter to have a time limit.
@kevin Also what about the reverse where the user posted something, you unfollow, then someone boosts it into your TL again. Seems like you definitely want to filter in that case.
Not that I have the time or skills to implement such a thing, I just have a true passionate for user requirements 😛