Does mastodon have any concept of "follow a post"?
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Does mastodon have any concept of "follow a post"? Sometimes someone asks a good question and I want to get notifications for its responses the same as if I had posted it.
Slack, as an example, has "get notified of new replies" for threads.
This would be a big boost for "usefulness" of mastodon for me.
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Does mastodon have any concept of "follow a post"? Sometimes someone asks a good question and I want to get notifications for its responses the same as if I had posted it.
Slack, as an example, has "get notified of new replies" for threads.
This would be a big boost for "usefulness" of mastodon for me.
#mastodon #fediverse #howto #tipsipsquiggle@sunny.garden No, you will need to use a different software that allows for it.
For example, nodebb@fosstodon.org will let you follow a topic and notify you of new responses.
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Does mastodon have any concept of "follow a post"? Sometimes someone asks a good question and I want to get notifications for its responses the same as if I had posted it.
Slack, as an example, has "get notified of new replies" for threads.
This would be a big boost for "usefulness" of mastodon for me.
#mastodon #fediverse #howto #tips@ipsquiggle Suggestion on Mastodon's issue tracker: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/7969
Not sure if there are any replies from the dev team, it's quite a big thread.
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@julian
Makes sense. So nodeBB has to do this itself though, e.g. by polling, or is it able to leverage activitypub features directly? Just curious.Given the breadth of activitypub applications, it would surprise me if there's no way to subscribe without being a participant...
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@ipsquiggle Suggestion on Mastodon's issue tracker: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/7969
Not sure if there are any replies from the dev team, it's quite a big thread.
@wordsmith
Indeed! Thanks for highlighting it, I'll take a look through and see where the discussion is at. (Posted 2018 hahah... My expectations are lower than when I originally asked.
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@wordsmith
Indeed! Thanks for highlighting it, I'll take a look through and see where the discussion is at. (Posted 2018 hahah... My expectations are lower than when I originally asked.)@ipsquiggle the suggestion is almost as old as my presence here, which is saying something
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@julian
Makes sense. So nodeBB has to do this itself though, e.g. by polling, or is it able to leverage activitypub features directly? Just curious.Given the breadth of activitypub applications, it would surprise me if there's no way to subscribe without being a participant...
ipsquiggle@sunny.garden NodeBB just tracks it internally and notifies you if there have been additional replies.
It's not something the ActivityPub spec talks about but it's something that would be quite helpful.
