My Pleroma feed is not 100% actual friends of mine, but that's because I choose to follow certain organizations or public figures. The Fediverse is great because it's exactly what you make of it.

> 100% actual friends

But no family because they'd never figure out how to use the damned thing, amirite?

And if they do join, there is the implicit SLA of ongoing support anytime issues arise.

Probably the nicest bonus feature of Mastodon is that I can subscribe to a friend's original posts but unsubscribe to their "boosts," which is Mastodon's way to quickly share content. This way I can follow artists that make cool stuff I want to keep up with, but I don't have to see their political reblogs and other interactions, which helps to cut down considerably on the noise.

It's great because it's granular at the friend level. Some of my follows do legitimately act as curators, infrequently boosting cool content that I do want to see. Some are more noisy, and I can pick and choose and tailor my own feed accordingly. It's a nice happy medium, one I'd like to see other platforms emulate if possible, but I suspect they won't because the algorithmic feed is much easier for advertisers to pay to manipulate.

I wish SoundCloud supported this.

Someone should make SoundCloud for the Fediverse.

Does Funkwhale count?

https://funkwhale.audio/

Delightful! Thank you for sharing!

While it is a cool piece of software, it doesn't really work like Mastodon or SoundCloud.

That said, you can post audio clips on Mastodon quite easily.

This is what made me delete my Twitter account.

I may follow a software engineer that writes books on functional programming but I just don't care about his stupid dogs or his alt right political ideas.

bite my app?

You can do that too in Twitter

"Turn off reposts"

> Mastodon is that I can subscribe to a friend's original posts but unsubscribe to their "boosts,"

Wait, you can do this?! I guess I wasn't paying attention. Time to give Mastodon another go.

It is. On Facebook you can sort your feed that way and also on Twitter. Not sure about Instagram.

In my opinion, people are bored out of their mind also on a chronological feed from their friends. Not because they dislike their friends, it's just all very repetitive and time-consuming with very little to show for it.

By the way, the article doesn't even mention Mastodon. I gave up social media owned by billionaires, Tweeter mainly, and I am very pleased with Mastodon.