stop following single posts?

Sun, 20 Nov 2022 12:21:23 +0100

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Alexander Goeres schrieb den folgenden Beitrag Sun, 20 Nov 2022 12:21:22 +0100

stop following single posts?

hi,
since the twitter inundation began i noticed that some of the posts from mastodon accounts get ever longer and keep showing up in my stream any time another comment is added. i would like to get rid of these single posts without unfollowing the account they were published by.

i was of the impression that this could be achieved by choosing the point "do not follow anymore|nicht mehr folgen" from the drop down menu of the relevant post. but this doesn't seem to be working. every post i have tried this with still keeps showing up in my stream any time there is a new "welcome, george" comment added to the post.

so my questions are: is this the right way to get rid of single posts? is it even possible to do this in hubzilla? or is this a bug? or am i missing something else there?

thanks in advance for any information!

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Sun, 20 Nov 2022 12:41:39 +0100

Harald Eilertsen

harald@hub.volse.no

When you select the "Unfollow thread" action, you will no longer get notifications from the post/thread you selected it for. But the thread will not be filtered from your view. If you sort the network stream by last commented you will still see the post in your stream whenever a new comment is added.

Personally I sort by posted date instead. That works better for me, but I don't know if there's any way to actively hide a thread from appearing in the stream.

Sun, 20 Nov 2022 12:47:59 +0100

Tanja

tanja@hz.lazyteddy.eu

@Harald Eilertsen

I don't know if there's any way to actively hide a thread from appearing in the stream.

If you click the gear icon and hit "Delete", that removes a post from your stream.

Sun, 20 Nov 2022 13:12:14 +0100

Alexander Goeres

jabgoe2089@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

@Tanja delete ... oh yeah ... there's a delete line ... thanks for the hint ... :-)

Sun, 20 Nov 2022 16:45:17 +0100

Marshall Sutherland

dwatney@hub.farthinghalearms.com

This is a question I have had for years. For me, neither unfollow nor delete kept them from coming back when new replies showed up. It has been a while since I last tried. I should try again to see if anything has changed.

Sun, 20 Nov 2022 17:03:39 +0100

Alexander Goeres

jabgoe2089@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

@Marshall Sutherland up to now delete seem to be working for me. haven't had a single of these "welcome, george" comments since 4 hours ...

Sun, 20 Nov 2022 17:09:57 +0100

Tanja

tanja@hz.lazyteddy.eu

Maybe there's a difference in whether the posts come in from Mastodon or from Zotsites? No idea.

I can't say I thoroughly tested this, since, like @Harald Eilertsen, I sort my stream by Posted date instead of Commented date.

Sun, 20 Nov 2022 17:35:37 +0100

Bill Statler

billstatler@forum.statler.ws

"Delete"

Thank you! I forgot that was there. (Works in Streams too.)

Mon, 21 Nov 2022 02:34:25 +0100

Bill Statler

billstatler@forum.statler.ws

"neither unfollow nor delete kept them from coming back when new replies showed up."

This is what I just found on Streams. It's not what I expected, but it makes sense if I think about it differently. "Delete" only deletes what I'm seeing -- the original post and current comments. It doesn't keep deleting into the future. When a new comment arrives, I see it, and the server finds the original post (again) so the comment is attached to something.

I need a better understanding of post/comment delivery. I have a dim grasp of the concept that it's more like e-mail than like centralized social media, but I don't always see what that implies.

Mon, 21 Nov 2022 03:24:42 +0100

Marshall Sutherland

dwatney@hub.farthinghalearms.com

@Bill Statler The annoying bit is that I usually try this because it is the continuing conversation I don't want to see anymore. I like the email analogy and see how it makes sense that it behaves this way, but just like deleting the original email of a reply chain that never seems to end, this feature seems pretty useless unless we are missing something.

Thu, 24 Nov 2022 01:05:01 +0100

Mario Vavti

mario@hub.somaton.com

Well, if Hubzilla receives a comment where it does not have the parent from (either because it was not received in first place or it was deleted), it will try to fetch it.
Since deleted posts are not stored forever, there is no way to determine if it was deleted or just not received and it will be imported again.

Thu, 24 Nov 2022 01:13:36 +0100

Bill Statler

billstatler@forum.statler.ws

The annoying bit is that I usually try this because it is the continuing conversation I don't want to see anymore.

Today it's Neil Gaiman's photos of the night sky, right? :-)

Thu, 24 Nov 2022 01:24:28 +0100

Marshall Sutherland

dwatney@hub.farthinghalearms.com

There is some large message I keep deleting (3 times now, I think) because I don't know the language. I don't know of it keeps getting edited, but it keeps coming back. Mostly, I keep deleting it to test this very thing. Last time I did Unfollow and Delete. We shall see if it returns again.

Thu, 24 Nov 2022 09:04:15 +0100

𝓒𝓱𝓻𝓲𝓼

chris@im.allmendenetz.de

@Mario Vavti

so what is "do not follow anymore" from the drop down menu supposed to do?

Thu, 24 Nov 2022 09:22:40 +0100

Mario Vavti

mario@hub.somaton.com

@𝓒𝓱𝓻𝓲𝓼 you will stop receiving notices.

Thu, 24 Nov 2022 09:31:53 +0100

𝓒𝓱𝓻𝓲𝓼

chris@im.allmendenetz.de

@Mario Vavti Hmm... but this does not work really when i try it... has this setting be applied to the first post of the thread?

Thu, 24 Nov 2022 10:03:39 +0100

Mario Vavti

mario@hub.somaton.com

@𝓒𝓱𝓻𝓲𝓼 not sure from the top of ny head since i never use this function. But yes i think you would have to unfollow the thread parent...

Thu, 24 Nov 2022 10:17:56 +0100

Harald Eilertsen

harald@hub.volse.no

@Mario Vavti No, you can select unfollow from any reply (or the top post) and the notifications for the entire thread will stop.

Thu, 24 Nov 2022 12:15:55 +0100

𝓒𝓱𝓻𝓲𝓼

chris@im.allmendenetz.de

@Harald Eilertsen Well, I tried this before and i think @Alexander Goeres did as well but notifications for thread did NOT stop.

Thu, 24 Nov 2022 13:02:15 +0100

Mario Vavti

mario@hub.somaton.com

@𝓒𝓱𝓻𝓲𝓼 notifications as in notices?

Thu, 24 Nov 2022 14:34:46 +0100

𝓒𝓱𝓻𝓲𝓼

chris@im.allmendenetz.de

@Mario Vavti
right this is a difference - so a click on "do not follow anymore" will stop /notifications
but not notices in the Network stream widget?

How to stop notices in the Network stream widget than?

Thu, 24 Nov 2022 14:40:14 +0100

Mario Vavti

mario@hub.somaton.com

@𝓒𝓱𝓻𝓲𝓼

How to stop notices in the Network stream widget than?

Those are not actually notices. They just show you the items you have not seen yet. There is no way to stop/hide them atm.

Thu, 24 Nov 2022 14:45:13 +0100

Harald Eilertsen

harald@hub.volse.no

@𝓒𝓱𝓻𝓲𝓼 It will not stop the post from appearing in the network stream, but you will not be notified about new replies anymore (the triangle in the navbar at the top.)

Thu, 24 Nov 2022 15:34:28 +0100 zuletzt bearbeitet: Thu, 24 Nov 2022 16:01:53 +0100

𝓒𝓱𝓻𝓲𝓼

chris@im.allmendenetz.de

@Mario Vavti

so if I'm in HQ mode there is no way atm to stop/hide this "welcome, george" items in the widget.

if you want to get rid of them @Alexander Goeres do it as i wort here: https://hub.tschlotfeldt.de/item/502bb7d8-900b-45c3-97cb-31bf4207c3bc

Thu, 24 Nov 2022 16:12:30 +0100

Mario Vavti

mario@hub.somaton.com

@𝓒𝓱𝓻𝓲𝓼 which widget?

Thu, 24 Nov 2022 16:45:19 +0100

Marshall Sutherland

dwatney@hub.farthinghalearms.com

And there it is again (and another thread, as well). As far as I can tell, Delete and Unfollow are useless to me. I will be curious to see if I stop seeing the message in question if I stop actively trying not to see it. I have nothing against the message, I just chose it as a test subject.

Thu, 24 Nov 2022 17:34:05 +0100

𝓒𝓱𝓻𝓲𝓼

chris@im.allmendenetz.de

@Mario Vavti

which widget?

[widget=notifications][/widget]

Thu, 24 Nov 2022 17:57:20 +0100

Mario Vavti

mario@hub.somaton.com

@𝓒𝓱𝓻𝓲𝓼 you could filter incoming messages containing welcome.

Thu, 24 Nov 2022 18:34:06 +0100

𝓒𝓱𝓻𝓲𝓼

chris@im.allmendenetz.de

@Mario Vavti Yes ...but this does not lessen the fact that the notifications widget is not that useful when you follow accounts with lots of followers

e.g. an account with K tausend followers just post "Good Morning" and this post get hundred replies with "Good Morning" they all show up in the notifications widget like spam - its kind of annoying and it would be great to have a way to silence this kind of notifications...

this can't be done my word filtering

Thu, 24 Nov 2022 18:40:29 +0100

Mario Vavti

mario@hub.somaton.com

@𝓒𝓱𝓻𝓲𝓼 if it's not useful, turn it off. Settings > Notification Settings > Unseen stream activity

Thu, 24 Nov 2022 19:12:00 +0100 zuletzt bearbeitet: Thu, 24 Nov 2022 19:18:11 +0100

𝓒𝓱𝓻𝓲𝓼

chris@im.allmendenetz.de

@Mario Vavti hmmm... ??? no, don't want do that ;-)

it would be great to have a way to silence just this kind of notifications, not all ...

if it is not possible - not big deal - I found a work around as described
https://hub.tschlotfeldt.de/item/502bb7d8-900b-45c3-97cb-31bf4207c3bc

Thu, 24 Nov 2022 19:17:12 +0100

𝓒𝓱𝓻𝓲𝓼

chris@im.allmendenetz.de

this thread relates also to :

https://zotadel.net/display/b64.aHR0cHM6Ly96b3RhZGVsLm5ldC9pdGVtLzEwYzMxMTE2LTU4MDctNGFlMy1iMmZkLTlkMmQ5NTZhZGE0NQ?f=&zid=chris%40im.allmendenetz.de

Thu, 24 Nov 2022 19:30:06 +0100

Witcraft (Hubzilla)

witcraft@hub.hubzilla.de

There might be some workaround for mastodon contacts: I usually do not connect to large channels, anymore, but to their rss feed (URL version of their channel, + .rss). This way, I should not get other's comments, but only the contact's posts.

Thu, 24 Nov 2022 20:53:08 +0100

𝓒𝓱𝓻𝓲𝓼

chris@im.allmendenetz.de

@Witcraft does this actually work ? - i tried this before and when i add a rss feed of a Masto contact it does not add the feed but the actual fedi address

Thu, 24 Nov 2022 21:32:06 +0100

Witcraft (Hubzilla)

witcraft@hub.hubzilla.de

Leave away the https://.
instance/@channel.rss seems to work for me.

Thu, 24 Nov 2022 21:51:09 +0100

𝓒𝓱𝓻𝓲𝓼

chris@im.allmendenetz.de

@Witcraft this seams also not to work on my hub

Thu, 24 Nov 2022 21:58:18 +0100

Witcraft (Hubzilla)

witcraft@hub.hubzilla.de

Try adding the same channel twice. There seems to be a bug where the channel is not added the first time, but then the second time.

Yes, that's far from ideal, but easy to work around.

Thu, 24 Nov 2022 22:28:40 +0100

Mario Vavti

mario@hub.somaton.com

@Witcraft right, that is a regression in current master and already fixed in dev branch.

Thu, 24 Nov 2022 23:00:47 +0100

Witcraft (Hubzilla)

witcraft@hub.hubzilla.de

@Mario Vavti Perfect - Thanks for fixing it! :thumbsup:

Tue, 29 Nov 2022 17:17:10 +0100

𝓒𝓱𝓻𝓲𝓼

chris@im.allmendenetz.de

@Witcraft

Leave away the https://.
instance/@channel.rss seems to work for me.

Yes it does work - nice workaround - THANKS

Tue, 29 Nov 2022 18:00:15 +0100

Witcraft (Hubzilla)

witcraft@hub.hubzilla.de

Your welcome - I love that feature (especially since Hubzilla can read RSS of the hubmin allows it. It clears up my timeline substantially.