Jason
Taylor LorenzQuestion for Mastodon experts, is there a way to get some sort of notification feed for mutuals only? I love my general notifs but it’s hard to keep up and I often miss replies from good friends. I’d love a way to skim just those in addition to the general notifs
I mean notifications for replies only btw, not for friends’ main Mastodon posts 😅. Friends reply to me and their replies get lost in the notification feed. So looking for a solution where I can sort replies into “general” and “mutuals only” if that makes sense
Nancy M Ruff
Cameron MacLeod@taylorlorenz Ahh, yes makes sense. Sorry for unintentional notification traffic that doesn't help. Good advanced view feature suggestion @Gargron : multiple notification columns, with a filter for mutuals.
Giacomo Indiveri 
🧠@taylorlorenz
I created multiple "lists" so that I can keep track of posts from friends, colleagues, without worrying that their posts get lost in the main "Home" feed
I created multiple "lists" so that I can keep track of posts from friends, colleagues, without worrying that their posts get lost in the main "Home" feed
Mark Douglas@taylorlorenz
Ah... Ok... Not sure about just notifications. I'll look into it. Sounds like a great idea.
Ah... Ok... Not sure about just notifications. I'll look into it. Sounds like a great idea.
E Warren Fan@taylorlorenz you gonna have to sort through the riff raff like me 😄
CartyBoston@taylorlorenz you are 3 hours from reading the wikipedia article for JSON-LD and declaring that you are writing your own instance.
halindrome@CartyBoston @taylorlorenz Remember to also read the W3C specs!
K Priest@taylorlorenz depends on the masto app you're using, and it might not be exactly what you're looking for, but Tusky allows me to filter notifications by type.
@pennyivy@taylorlorenz People could use #general for outsider comments.
Joris Meys@taylorlorenz Is the tab "Mentions" in the Notifications what you're looking for? That's on the website btw, I don't know whether there's an app that allows the same filtering.
Beeks@taylorlorenz say what you will about Twitter algorithms, but back when I used it I never once clicked "see additional replies" and afterwards thought it was a good idea. Of course now all those people have blue checks and are pushed to the top of the replies....
Albert Hubble@Beeks @taylorlorenz Reality is, Mastodon never tried to be a clone. And therefore it is more of a social network, while twitter is more a single way sender especially for journalists. Question is, will mastodon try to pleace those kind of users or not. You can't follow 1000 other accounts without an algo unless you do lists for everything.
Chris L@Albert_Hubble @Beeks @taylorlorenz as someone that follows 1700 people and bots on Twitter and only used chronological timeline, you can if you don’t care about seeing everything but only care about seeing interesting things. And trust that important stuff will be repeated enough. But yeah, Twitter seems like the people with a ton of followers have more tools than we. Maybe some high volume person will sponsor a client hat solves those use cases ?
@jayalane @Beeks @taylorlorenz I mean, i used to make lists on twitter too, but many don't. Somehow "algorythm" became a bad word in most cases but it really makes Twitter useable if you don't make lists yourself. Also i watched the first 10 minutes of this video and that made me think a little. https://odysee.com/@EposVox:6/the-net-is-healing-beginners-guide-to:d
THE NET IS HEALING - Beginners Guide to Mastodon & Fediverse
Landsil
(っ◔◡◔)っstephen@taylorlorenz you should to get on @ivory beta, as it has built in filters just for this.
Adam@taylorlorenz if you’re interested in an app-specific solution, it appears the @ivory beta has a filtering feature that might suit your needs https://tapbots.social/@mark/109546784111517607
Mark Jardine (@[email protected])
Attached: 2 images We’ve had timeline filters in Tweetbot for awhile now, but moving these tools to the titlebar has made them so much more accessible. In the first image, I filtered my mentions list to only show mentions from people I follow because I was looking for a post. In the second, I wanted to reply to one of my older tweets, but it was far down the list because of a bunch of replies and boosts. So I created a custom filter removing replies and boosts.
@taylorlorenz
In the webpage you can do this in the Preferences-->Notifications page by blocking notifications from people you don't follow
In the webpage you can do this in the Preferences-->Notifications page by blocking notifications from people you don't follow
@taylorlorenz
In the app you can do this in the preferences and this nifty drop-down menu next to notifications
Hope these help
@taylorlorenz
Keep in mind these settings are not kept between the webpage and the app, changing one doesn't affect the other
Keep in mind these settings are not kept between the webpage and the app, changing one doesn't affect the other
DarthWombat@taylorlorenz That makes perfect sense, and sounds highly useful. It also helps align with user expectations: a stranger may not expect a response, a mutual may be puzzled/disappointed if one isn't forthcoming.
Brother Holmes@taylorlorenz Riley Testut has been beta testing the Ivory app from Tapbots & it looks like it has EXACTLY what you’re looking for. 😀
@taylorlorenz if you click on the word “anyone” in notifications you will get a list to pick from
Joe Chapman (he/him)@taylorlorenz if you’re OK with a “filter” and not notification, you might find what you want in the new @ivory alpha. This is a filter for “replies” from “people you follow” that include your username.
R. P. Dillon@taylorlorenz I guess I'd kind of recommend using multiple identities. In the same way you have an email address for work and a separate address for your actual life, and maybe even another email address that you give to all the websites that constantly ask you to signup, I think a similar pattern for the fediverse can be helpful.
Aaron Bushnell@taylorlorenz Hope this is helpful, but not sure if it's exactly what you need!
If you go to Preferences > Notifications, you could maybe use the bottom set of options?
Not sure if this is just for the web app version of Mastodon or *all* Mastodon clients you use!
@aaronbushnell ohh! I don’t see that option on mine but that’s helpful, wish there was an easy way to toggle between replies from followers vs non followers though
@taylorlorenz Ugh, I know. Hopefully it'll be an addition in the future or maybe the Lists feature gets ya a tad closer!
hammer@aaronbushnell @taylorlorenz I live for lists, same as I did on twitter.
David Bruchmann@taylorlorenz @aaronbushnell You've a similar dialog when you click on the context menu of a single post or comment.
Not sure if one of the options could help
Not sure if one of the options could help
@taylorlorenz I use the advanced view and lists to create filtered views so I can more closely follow certain groups or topics. The "show replies to" option might approximate what you're looking for?
(Edit to add: to try this multi-column view, go into preferences and look for "Enable advanced web interface". Then you can add people to various lists, and then pin those lists in their own columns. The < and > buttons let you re-order the columns too.)
Jason B 🧙♂️@c_9 @taylorlorenz ooooo I never thought about using lists in this manner.
Olavur Ellefsen@taylorlorenz Have you tried using lists?
Organize Your Mastodon Feed with the Power of Lists
Michael Karbowiaki would assume you could make a list 😅
Tho i will have to defer to someone smarter than i (or who have already done it)
Stefan@taylorlorenz not that I know of. I would smash that bell icon to get notification when they post.
@stefan I don’t want push notifications for when they post (that sounds terrible! No offense to my friends). I just want a feed where I can see their replies to me. Their replies are lost among the masses of replies I get. I want a feed of just mutuals replies, like on Twitter
@taylorlorenz sadly not yet! Looking at github I don't see anyone talking about that feature. Most times @darius is the one who knows history if there is a reason it's not been built yet.
Personally both on twitter and here I've been a heavy user of the bell or mobile notifications.
Darius Kazemi@stefan @taylorlorenz I'm actually not aware of discussion about this specific feature! My guess is that it was simply not a problem until recently (things were pretty sleepy here until a few months ago)
It's a good idea though. If I weren't slammed I would file a feature request for it on Mastodon myself
@darius @taylorlorenz sounds good. I can try and open one later today. thanks for the context Darius.
@darius @taylorlorenz Here is my crack at asking for the ability to mute notifications in the style of twitter which large accounts would benefit from: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/22594
Allow notifications to be muted by account attribute criteria · Issue #22594 · mastodon/mastodon
Pitch Notification call for attention and users should be in charge of how how much attention they are allowed to call for. Mastodon already agrees with this stance as it allows a wide range of way...
CJ. not TJ or DJ@taylorlorenz Maybe the list tool can be useful for that?
Stefan Dembowski 📷@taylorlorenz I think it can be done via a list.
Please see below, when you next post, It should show up in my list (I've added others too to test).
ambercadabra 💙🦦@taylorlorenz you can make a list of those people and view it separately, like a filtered timeline of just their posts and replies
quaySomeone may have a better answer but make a list of mutuals would be one way to do it.
@taylorlorenz
Ikm not completely sure what you mean. I think that at least in part depends on the client You are using. I mostly use the webclient.
I use pinned lists to aggregate the posts (and replies) of those people I really don’t want to miss any post of.
Scottie137@taylorlorenz You could always set up a list with just your friends added to it and check that periodically?
Nour Agha 
@taylorlorenz A list should work for this. Not sure if it'll exactly do it for notifications as I haven't tried it, but it should help you curate a feed of mutuals only which will make any replies very visible on it.
Bearded_Pip@taylorlorenz I hope you get a better answer than make a list. Twitter has me viewing lists as a harassment tool and I want nothing to do with having them or being on them.
Lynda Pendant Clause@taylorlorenz I could be wrong but I think OP is asking for how to see when mutuals reply to, or reblog, her posts, not when mutuals post separately unrelated to her posts (OP feel free to correct)
Axel Antoni@taylorlorenz I successfully use lists to keep on top of posts of people close to me
Saranya100@taylorlorenz not an expert but if you use the toot mastadon client app on iOS , you will see in the profile on ppl you follow a notify button . That should let you know when friends are responding to your toots and messages.
Sudhir@taylorlorenz . Same I too feel!! Can anyone suggest if we can communicate with a few mutuals without cluttering the whole space for All Followers and reducing load on Servers too?🤔
daniel roe 🇺🇦@taylorlorenz This sounds like an interesting idea for @elk - I think we might be able to support a 'Mutuals' tab that filters things down.
cc: @patak
@taylorlorenz
You can make a list of people you want to prioritize, I believe. I'll be doing that today. I use #fedilab and it seems fairly straight forward.
You can make a list of people you want to prioritize, I believe. I'll be doing that today. I use #fedilab and it seems fairly straight forward.
Jaap Wieringa ✅@taylorlorenz I'm using lists for that. Just in your menu click lists and make your lists. I have (amongst others) 1 for friends/favorie accounts from who I want te see 'everything' 1 for news related accounts and at the moment 1 about Ukraine.
Every time I have time and/or am in the mood I can click that list and see just toot pertaining to accounts in that list.
To add a user you can go to lists and search people you follow. If you are on someone's account you can add them via the 3 dots.
Every time I have time and/or am in the mood I can click that list and see just toot pertaining to accounts in that list.
To add a user you can go to lists and search people you follow. If you are on someone's account you can add them via the 3 dots.
regexer@taylorlorenz I expect some variation of “money changed hands” will show frequently.