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Is there a feed that shows only followed accounts? (feddit.org)

submitted 1 week ago by Sepix@feddit.org to c/mastodon@lemmy.ml

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I use a variety of clients from the official website, to tusky to elk and i haven't found a way to show only the content of the accounts i follow. All "Home" feeds additionally contain information i haven't directly subscribed to.

How does this work?

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[–] b72@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The Home feed (in comparison to Local or Federated feeds) should only show the accounts you follow, but those posts will be made up of original posts by those you follow and anything they boost (as well as responses to and from mutual people you follow). As someone else has commented, you can hide boosts of those you follow by going into their individual profile page and choosing to hide their boosts.

You shouldn't be getting anything else on your Home feed.

[–] Sepix@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Boosts are marked as such and recognizable, the posts i am seeing are common posts from accounts i don't follow. Here in the middle is an account i don't follow, at the bottom is a boosted post. The feed is my home fed in Elk, it is the same on the website.

[–] Sepix@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The posts i was seeing appeared through the hashtags i am following! Totally forgot about those!

[–] b72@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

Ah, yes! That’ll explain it.

I use Ivory on iOS and it puts the hashtag above the post so I know it’s a post from a hashtag I follow! Quite a helpful feature.