@darius oooh this is a good tip, especially since my feeds are a lot more active than usual and I haven’t figured out how to manage them yet

@darius I love that the bell icon was grayed out as "sensitive content."

I had an idea for Smithereen to send email notifications every day or week or whatever with the summary of what happened over that period. Opt-in of course and only sent if you don't visit for X days.

@darius I've been here for five years and never knew this.

@darius huh. what version is that?

@darius Thank you for the great tip!

@darius oh wow I didn't even know this and I've been here for 3 years. 🤯

@darius Oh hey. This is super useful because yeah, I feel like I miss a lot of the posts my friends make even though I'm on here pretty often, unless I go to their profiles specifically but then I'm often interacting weeks after the fact xD

@darius this is great. I've used mobile notifications to great effect on twitter as well.

@darius It seems like the app UI that I'm using doesn't allow this, but I appreciate your post, hopefully I can get it to go through the browser :)

@darius hi Darius!! I'm excited to be on here again :)

@darius
I personally do the opposite. I enable the bell for everyone I follow, and finally, if the person "spams" my timeline too much (in the sense of too many things that don't interest me), I disable the bell.

@darius
I don't see a bell (I'm on the website).

@darius I've been here since 2018, but I never noticed that before. What a very useful tip, thank you!

@darius that's right. like, subscribe, and hit that bell

@darius This sounds like a great idea. I’m putting real effort into replying rather than lurking as well. who should I be following?

@darius thanks for the tip!

@darius tks for the tip !

@darius

alas, works on another instance for me where I use it gladly, but not on toot.cat

not sure if it's a limitation of glitch-soc, of the version of g-s being old, of some toot.cat admin setting, or what

@darius how cute

@darius I am actually just using the app for the first time. Still going around blindly.

@darius Your tip is absolutely brilliant! Than you!

@darius This is indeed a wonderful feature and helps me with spending less time on the web and still getting updates I find valuable/interesting. I scroll through timelines less and less and just look at the notifications by people I follow. I try to post less, but with a bit more effort, so that when people put on notifications on my profile they only see something once in a while.

I still doubt whether to use a different account for nonprofessional things like running pictures..?

@darius @feditips In case you're not aware, this is a good one.

@darius
I did not know this, thanks!

@darius Great idea and thanks for this.

reposting this with every influx of new users

@darius I ended up putting people I liked the most in a list, and then pinned the list to my home page. But I like the bell/notifications method too!

@darius thanks darius!

@darius Or lists! You can also make a newbies-to-babysit list and create a new column to watch :)

@darius "SMASH THAT FOLLOW BUTTON AND HIT THE BELL"

Gonna be doing this for my friends @galaxybrain and @haze!

@strypey @darius Is this purely a client feature? If you trigger the bell from the stock GUI web app then return to your 3rd party client, will the posts still make it to your notifications?

@darius Thanks very much for this! I either didn't know of this functionality or didn't realise it would be useful for this purpose. In any case, thank you!
I will go off and do that now...

@darius Great tip but in practice quite hard:
1) I have to open a separate page for everyone I currently follow
2) The UX is far too subtle, the bell icon changes from grey to light purple. Make it bolder, fill it in solid, easy fix, UX win.

@darius but there is no bell in the app. /sad

@darius oh this is neat thank you