One thing I relied on heavily with Twitter was notifications. I turned up important voices, and their information came to me.

Is there an equivalent in any Mastodon app?

#question #mastodon #notifications

@kmakice The Metatext app sends me notifications.

@jamieBGN I’ll have to try that out, thanks.

Any features missing from that app that you wish were there?

@kmakice I can’t send images via DM I’ve noticed
@jamieBGN That would be appreciated. Screenshots are my love language.

@kmakice @jamieBGN Metatext fan here too

Jumping from home to local to fediverse timelines is super easy.

@jamieBGN @kmakice
Here’s a screenshot

Anyone, can some show me how to put in alt text and to authenticate my photos?
#LearningCurve

@kmakice @SparkleTea Hmm what about screenshots outside of Mastodon? That’s what it was of. Not sure if that makes a difference

@jamieBGN @SparkleTea whatI’m looking for is how to push the notifications to my phone screen when not in an app.

When I’m in the app, I browse. When I’m out of the app, I only want certain content/authors pushed to me.

@kmakice @SparkleTea Are you talking about like this?
@SparkleTea @kmakice And I just realized my screenshot didn’t work earlier because I didn’t wait for it to load 🤦🏾‍♀️

@jamieBGN @SparkleTea Yes! only the ability to only surface selected people, rather than everything.

Do the notification settings allow for that list to be curated?

@SparkleTea @kmakice Ooh that I don’t know.
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@jamieBGN @kmakice

on my phone that is controlled by my notifications settings. I can get a banner or a badge or a little flag with a number, etc.

On Metatext when I click the notifications bell at the bottom, I get a list of people who have boosted me or followed me etc.

@SparkleTea @jamieBGN

This is what I’m missing. I want my phone to push just a selected segment of my network when I am not in the app.

@jamieBGN @SparkleTea FYI a week on MetaText has met my needs, thanks! The notifications that weren’t popping to my phone screen with the Mastodon app are doing what I hoped with MetaText.