Are you getting notifications from a thread that you don't care about?
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Are you getting notifications from a thread that you don't care about? Do you want to stop those notifications?
You can do this by using Mastodon's "Mute conversation" feature:
1. Log in through your server’s website or web app
2. Go to a notification you’ve received from the thread you want to mute
3. Click ⋯ on the notification and select "Mute conversation"No one will know you've done it, and it will only affect notifications from that thread.
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@FediTips It seems there are limitations to this though. Apparently different replies at different points affect which "conversation" is actually being referred to even though it all stems back to a same post further back.
Someday what we really need is a way to remove your tag as a default from new posts so when people post a new post they would have to manually add it if they actually wanted to tag you.
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It generally works, so it's worth doing. If you start getting notifications from a different branch of the thread you can do it again on notifications from that branch.
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@FediTips Yeah, just I got particularly annoyed the other day (on a different account) where the same one just kept coming up despite me hitting mute. They must have just been branching off like mad or something, lol.
I guess I would have had to have found my original post and muted from there, but it seems to have finally disappeared for me for now anyway.
Still, I see a lot of "please remove me from this conversation" posts and it strikes me that if there was a way for a person to actually do that themselves, it would really make a lot of people happier.
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Mute conversation does usually work, but unfortunately most of the apps don't have it as an option, which is why you have to go on the website. I think that's why a lot of people are unware of it.
" where the same one just kept coming up despite me hitting mute."
...aahh okay, that sounds like a bug. If it happens again might be worth reporting?
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@FediTips I think they were just branching it over and over or something. I probably would have had to go all the way back to my original post and manually mute from there.
Anyway, I was just expressing a feeling that a more active removal of one's tag from a conversation might make some people happier. Just a side thought. Probably wouldn't happen anyway.
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Ah sorry to hear, that sounds really annoying
Yeah, can see why someone would want their tag removed if the muting isn't working.
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feditips@social.growyourown.services correct, it mutes just that branch, because Mastodon doesn't understand that the entire reply tree is something that can exist.
When you mute a topic on NodeBB you mute it for good
