Hey, #ActivityPub friends!

Hey, #ActivityPub friends! I could use some help. My PR to let #Mastodon users filter or drop notifications from bot users is stalled while the Mastodon team considers whether the notifications page needs a redesign. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/38809 A bummer since I feel like it helps with a real user problem, but it's important to maintain that UI integrity, too.

I've opened another ticket to take on the problem from another angle: using a different page, and a different filtering criterion. It focus instead on the /filters settings page, and it allows filtering by *domain* rather than *bot flag*.

I opened an issue to discuss. I already tagged @renchap and @trwnh but if you have worked on the Mastodon codebase, or if you just want to support the work, please take a look and comment here:

Filter notifications by user domain · Issue #39191 · mastodon/mastodon

Pitch "As a Mastodon user, I want to filter notifications from actors on a particular domain, so that automated or functional services don't notify me of interactions." A number of automated services exist on the Fediverse -- group serve...

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@evan
Thanks for continuing to work on this. I get a lot of notifications from tags.pub.