I realize it won’t be like this forever, but while scrolling Lemmy I eventually come to a point when I start to see a lot of old posts and it’s a perfect signal that I’ve done more than enough scrolling for the day

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    3 days ago

    I’m confused, is it not on everyone’s settings for their default Lemmy profile?

    “Show Read Posts” is a checkmark you can unclick if you want to hide them…

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      Correct. But the additional feature is available on some clients. The additional feature is to mark posts as read when you merely scroll past them. That way I don’t have to keep scrolling past the same post every time I check Lemmy. I mean, I still scroll past the same link multiple times when different people have posted it to different instances, but I never see the exact same post twice.

      Boost setting to Mark posts as read when scrolled past

      Lemmy setting to hide read posts

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        Oh interesting, only use desktop so I’m not on mobile so probably missing out on some cool features being developed by others.

        Do you feel the apps do a better job of representing a post on the main scroll feed nowadays? I always felt like it lacked context when you were just reading a small excerpt, but I can see something like that easily approved upon and updated.

        I do feel the same as the OP poster though, I honestly can’t even get past the first page if I actually click and read the comments and look into the information being presented. One post can completely sidetrack me for a day if people start making claims that are untrue and it’s a whole rabbit hole to get to the bottom of it.

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            Holy shit, at first I thought they were pokemon cards of billionaires like Bezos, Musk etc.

            BRB coffee time.

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            yeah that’s way better, thank you for the edit/image upload (glad I don’t click marked read as often as I should lol). That’s definitely a healthy extract lol. I’ll make sure to suggest boost in the future if someone’s looking for a mobile version.