 A sincere tip for longtime fediverse people who would like their friends to stick around here longer than a week: If you're on Mastodon or Hometown, you can click the "bell" icon in the profile of someone you follow. This will make it so that every time they post, it will appear in your notifications like an "@". I am enabling this temporarily for friends so that I remember to interact with them. This is important for making this place feel more lively and helps people stick around! 66 comments
  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.
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 @ajroach42 @darius I think it’s pretty new? Mind you I use a phone app mostly so 🤷♂️ @MrsMouse this is on 3.4.6 for me. You have to be following someone for this to appear. @darius yea, I got 3.5 and am not seeing it... time to rake a bunch I guess.  @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 
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 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 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..?  I've set the "bell" flag for a few accounts now and it's working fine when they post a new toot, but I don't get any notification when these accounts reply to another toot.  @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! @amikigu I think lists are the better long term solution -- this one is more the kind of thing where you are *definitely* not going to forget them but only makes sense as a temporary measure   @darius Or lists! You can also make a newbies-to-babysit list and create a new column to watch :) @strypey @darius @aktivismoEstasMiaLuo It should, it's a server side setting and the server feeds your notification
@darius Great tip but in practice quite hard: @scottjenson I would not recommend doing this for everyone you follow! Just a handful of newbies who you feel like could use the engagement and encouragement. Fully agree on the color thing @darius Ah, interesting. Sorry for the noob question, but isn't the point of following people on different servers to get them to show up in my timeline? I understood you to mean that I HAD to tap the bell for them to show up. Misunderstanding? @darius @scottjenson more reasons to join (or migrate to?) #Friendica! This is way easier here, and you can customize the colors, or change themes altogether, of your user interface, regardless of the default set by the instance administrator.
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@darius I had no idea and had never noticed that bell!