There is a new feature of Mastodon that I wanted to highlight for you all.
I had no use for the Lists feature before- but as of the recent 4.2 update, you can put some people you follow into a list- and then you can check a box in that list's details to NOT SHOW their posts in your main feed.
This could totally change Mastodon for me, in the best way.
I follow some newsy-political accounts, and often rush by them in the feed if I'm not in the mood to hear (more) bad news. Now I can put them in a list and not see them at all in and among the feed of real thoughts, pictures, artwork and jokes you amazing people share.
And when I actually feel like engaging with the news/politics of the world, I can pop over to that list and see only that stuff in there.
This way you can have customized feeds of different kinds of accounts, and just see your tried and true favorite people in the main feed.
It's a multi-Mastodon-feed experience, separated by mood and preference.
Which for me is brilliant!
![[Red Text] When Donald Trump left office, 11 months after he recklessly downplayed COVID’s threat, the economy was down millions of jobs and 3,000 people were dying every day.
[Blue Text] Under Joe Biden:
Democrats passed the American Rescue Plan—jumpstarting the economy, reopening schools, vaccinating the country—and followed that up with historic investments in infrastructure and U.S. manufacturing.
The economy has added 13.4 million jobs and unemployment has been below 4% for 18 straight months, the longest stretch of sub-4% unemployment in 50 years.
[Bar chart: "Jobs Added/Lost by Presidential Term" showing bars for HW Bush 2,633,000, Clinton 1st Term 11,569,000, Clinton 2nd Term 11,335,000, W Bush 1st Term 80,000, W Bush 2nd Term 1,291,000, Obama 1st Term 1,196,000, Obama 2nd Term 10,374,000, Trump: -2,670,000, Biden 1st Term So Far 13,373,000; Republican bars in red, Democratic bars in blue]
[Blue Text] Democrats also passed the Inflation Reduction Act, and annual inflation in the US is now lower than in any other G7 nation and is lower than when Ronald Reagan ran his “Morning in America” ad during his 1984 reelection campaign.
Wages have risen significantly more than inflation over the past year.
[Red Text] MAGA Republicans voted to protect tax breaks for the rich and, instead of working with Joe Biden to reduce inflation, they’re focused on banning abortion, attacking civil rights, and putting Social Security and Medicare on the chopping block.](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/110/900/660/578/095/509/original/8257954ea18a4e45.png)
