I’ve been talking about trying to create a smaller, quieter home timeline and yet be able to follow interesting accounts with a large number of posts/boosts. I tried unfollowing some of these accounts and putting them into a list and, as should have been obvious, it seemed to fail since you do need to be following the accounts.

And yet, my list kept showing new posts but not at the volume that I would have expected from the users I added to the list. And only posts from some users.

I was puzzled about this and was wondering what was going on. I think I might have an answer — it looks as if you don’t need to be following the user to get their posts *as long as you follow somebody else who follows that user*. If the user and you have nobody else in common, then you won’t see any of their posts in your list.

So still not the ideal outcome, but maybe a workaround (albeit one which can have privacy implications) in case you want to go that route, I guess?

I think I’ll simply go back to my original idea of implementing homeline filtering for list members. But that’ll take a bit longer given the stuff I’m working on at the moment 😞

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