Hashtag shortcut from external instances include muted accounts

[eliocamp]

Describe the bug

As described in the title.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behaviour:

1. Add a shortcut for a hashtag from your instance.
2. Add a shortcut for the same hashtag but from an external instance.
3. See a post that is in both columns and mute the user.
4. Reload both columns. The post disappears on the first column but is there on the second one.

Expected behavior

Muted accounts should not be shown.

Screenshots

Shortcuts for the #argentina hashtag. One on mastodon.social (my instance) and the other on mas.to. Both show posts by the AllQuakes bot

Muting the bot

Now the posts are not there on the mastodon.social column but is still shown in the mas.to column.

[cheeaun]

Muted accounts are stored in the back-end of your logged-in instance, not really a client-side setting. It doesn't work on the other instance.

[eliocamp]

Ah, I was afraid that this might be not technically possible. Could phanpy retrieve and/or store the list of muted accounts and apply the filter itself? It might be too cumbersome and hard to maintain.

[cheeaun]

Storing the list on client-side is… yeah, cumbersome 🙈

Some mobile apps are probably already doing it (e.g. Ivory with client-side filters, mutes, etc — I'm not sure if they also apply it on remote timelines) with offline⇔remote database sync. Phanpy doesn't have this kind of db + sync implementation yet. Mutes list can also be very long with paginated responses (I'm not sure what's the limit or if there's even a limit?)

[eliocamp]

What if the user had a second account in the external instance? Would it be possible for the shortcut to fetch the hashtag usign that account and thus respecting its mute list? Perhaps this is a second feature request.

[cheeaun]

@eliocamp if the user has an account on that instance and user has added the account on Phanpy, the mute list (from that instance) should work theoretically. Though the user will need to mute the same profile from both accounts.

Note that the posts are not hidden from the client-side by checking the mute list. It's the back-end/server that's doing the work, by not including the muted posts from the beginning.

[eliocamp]

@eliocamp if the user has an account on that instance and user has added the account on Phanpy, the mute list (from that instance) should work theoretically. Though the user will need to mute the same profile from both accounts.

That's my case. I have an account on mastodon.social and one on sigmoid.social. If I add a shortcut on phanpy in my sogmoid.social that points to the mastodon.social instance, it doesn't use the mastodon.social mute list.

[cheeaun]

If I add a shortcut on phanpy in my sogmoid.social that points to the mastodon.social instance, it doesn't use the mastodon.social mute list.

Yeah, you'll have to mute the same accounts on the other instance. Or… you could export/import the mute list between the instances… 🤔

[eliocamp]

Or not. If I add the hashtag shortcut using that performs the request from another account, I can use that account mute list only and I don't need to keep them in sync.