panos

I have been following a Lemmy community from Firefish and I only get original posts, you can see this behaviour here: https://electricrequiem.com/[@[email protected]](https://community.nodebb.org/user/comradeship%40lemmygrad.ml) However Firefish has had problems with following Lemmy communities so this may not be the default behaviour from Mastodon.

Still, I do think that boosting all replies is not ideal, especially for busy forums. If a topic gets say 50 replies, it can really flood your timeline. Also personally I have set up my Firefish account to only show me original posts (and boosts), to have a cleaner and more compact timeline. With a forum account that boosts everything, you can’t filter replies, they all end up in your timeline.

So my suggestion was to perhaps create two accounts for following a forum, one than boosts everything and one that boosts only original posts. This way users would get a choice, and if they find that following everything makes their timeline too busy, they can choose to get only original posts, instead of unfollowing the forum completely.

However I think it would also be a good idea to offer a way to jump to the actual post as well. Perhaps the timestamp should be a link for that? Idk if that would be useful in chats as well. But in topics for sure, as you may want to jump up to that post a) to see other replies and b) to reply directly to it. So only viewing a copy of it above the reply will not always be enough. -ugh someone give me some reputation, wdym i have to wait 300 seconds between replies-

@baris yep, something like that is what I would suggest as well! Unobtrusive and lets you see the parent post without jumping up in the discussion :+1: