Should Mastodon notifications be prioritized?

Should Mastodon notifications be prioritized?

Arriving on Mastodon today, I have 400 new notifications. Ideally, I would like to read and reply to everyone, but some days I just cannot cope with that many.

Currently, if I only get through 100 notifications, that will be the 100 most recent, and the oldest 300 are then lost. I really do not like that, because recency is not the same as importance.

So my question is, could or should Mastodon help users prioritize notifications some way?

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Let me give an example of improvements I would find helpful:

A: If two people debate a post I wrote, that may generate 20 notifications. I would prefer, if those 20 notifcations were grouped as 1.

B: If a person creates a new post, addressed to me, asking a question, that post would be of the utmost importance to me — like receiving an e-mail — and often more important than replies.

So what do you think? Could or should the Mastodon notification system help prioritize notifications?

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@randahl So long as the user controls it, why not?

@farbel absolutely. One example of this could be, that I could mark you as having high priority to me, to make sure that I do not miss anything from you.

Let me give an example of improvements I would find helpful:

A: If two people debate a post I wrote, that may generate 20 notifications. I would prefer, if those 20 notifcations were grouped as 1.

B: If a person creates a new post, addressed to me, asking a question, that post would be of the utmost importance to me — like receiving an e-mail — and often more important than replies.

So what do you think? Could or should the Mastodon notification system help prioritize notifications?

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Should Mastodon notifications be prioritized?

Arriving on Mastodon today, I have 400 new notifications. Ideally, I would like to read and reply to everyone, but some days I just cannot cope with that many.

Currently, if I only get through 100 notifications, that will be the 100 most recent, and the oldest 300 are then lost. I really do not like that, because recency is not the same as importance.

So my question is, could or should Mastodon help users prioritize notifications some way?

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Let me give an example of improvements I would find helpful:

A: If two people debate a post I wrote, that may generate 20 notifications. I would prefer, if those 20 notifcations were grouped as 1.

B: If a person creates a new post, addressed to me, asking a question, that post would be of the utmost importance to me — like receiving an e-mail — and often more important than replies.

So what do you think? Could or should the Mastodon notification system help prioritize notifications?

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Should Mastodon notifications be prioritized?

Arriving on Mastodon today, I have 400 new notifications. Ideally, I would like to read and reply to everyone, but some days I just cannot cope with that many.

Currently, if I only get through 100 notifications, that will be the 100 most recent, and the oldest 300 are then lost. I really do not like that, because recency is not the same as importance.

So my question is, could or should Mastodon help users prioritize notifications some way?

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Should Mastodon notifications be prioritized?

Arriving on Mastodon today, I have 400 new notifications. Ideally, I would like to read and reply to everyone, but some days I just cannot cope with that many.

Currently, if I only get through 100 notifications, that will be the 100 most recent, and the oldest 300 are then lost. I really do not like that, because recency is not the same as importance.

So my question is, could or should Mastodon help users prioritize notifications some way?

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@randahl
are you asking for an ALGORITHM?

@farbel absolutely. One example of this could be, that I could mark you as having high priority to me, to make sure that I do not miss anything from you.

@randahl
You can, as of today, activate notifications for every post of a given account, so they you do not miss anything. Is this what you are thinking of ?
@farbel

@farbel @randahl Wouldn't that just be putting people in a list? Which is already possible?

@HeyLaiverd
Lists prioritizes people, not notifications .
@farbel

@randahl Come on. You’re never going to read or reply to me. I wasn’t born into the right white people club to experience belonging or safety.

But what you need isn’t fewer notifications. It’s the capacity to mark which repliers should be highlighted.

Some guy will say he thought of it after he reads this.

@randahl An app could reasonably provide some sort and filter options that you control (keywords, number of favourites and boosts, replies, that kind of thing). Threading them so you only see the back and forth if you click in would be a good idea, too.

But a huge selling feature of Mastodon is that it doesn't outsource decisions about what's important to an unaccountable algorithm.

@randahl what bothers me even more is that I use multi-column view, and when I open a post, it shows up in the rightmost column (not adjustable), but if I want to reply or post, I can only do it in the leftmost column.

@HeyLaiverd
Lists prioritizes people, not notifications .
@farbel

Let me give an example of improvements I would find helpful:

A: If two people debate a post I wrote, that may generate 20 notifications. I would prefer, if those 20 notifcations were grouped as 1.

B: If a person creates a new post, addressed to me, asking a question, that post would be of the utmost importance to me — like receiving an e-mail — and often more important than replies.

So what do you think? Could or should the Mastodon notification system help prioritize notifications?

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