I posted some of this in a reply to a user last night but wanted to put it out again. If anyone is an expert in #uBlock Origin #filters or in how a web #browser works, maybe you could help. Whether I can get this to work may make all the difference in whether I stay on #Mastodon or not. As I have written previously, possibly my #1 annoyance with Mastodon is that it shows me duplicate posts, that is, posts I have already read and even ones I have previously boosted. Bluesky has the same problem to a lesser degree, and they will show you your own reposts, BUT someone figured out that if you use the uBlock Origin browser extension you can add a filter to hide them (apparently with a little editing you can also hide reposts from any other specific user). See https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/issues/1116 and scroll down to the post by user liamness on Dec 6, 2024 (about halfway down the page as I write this) which shows exactly how to set it up for Bluesky.
My question is whether you can do the same thing when using the Mastodon web client. If you looks at the filter line in that post...
bsky.app##div[data-testid^="feedItem-by-"]:has-text(/Reposted by you/i)
... I would guess that if you changed "bsky.app" to your Mastodon instance URL, and changed "Reposted by you" to "username boosted" (where "username" is replaced with your actual username) you would be 2/3 of the way there. The only thing I don't know is what "feedItem-by-" would need to be changed to (or if there even is a direct equivalent).
I'm not a programmer but I do know there is a way in #Firefox to look at the page source, however when you try that while using the Mastodon web client it doesn't seem to show the individual articles. This same hack MIGHT work with other #Fediverse web clients but again you would need to know how to construct the filter, and right now I don't know how to find the missing piece of the puzzle. Does anyone know?
