Subscribe to a toot

[allo-]

An option to subscribe to a toot would be useful, where you can subscribe to notifications about the toot.

Example toot: "Hey, does somebody know a command line tool to do X?"

I would now like to be able to subscribe to the notifications, to see when the original poster gets an useful answer which is interesting for me as well.

It may be interesting to get all notifications (like boosts and favs), but I do not see many usecases for that. The most interesting part are notifications about further replies.

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[Elshara]

I second this. People should be able to control this in notification settings.

[cbayerlein]

I second!

[jpfox]

Yes it's a very good feature !

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[rugk]

I like this idea.

[resynth1943]

I don't think Twitter can do this. I love the idea!

[placoderm]

I would also like this.

I'm new using mastodon, so I don't understand how I am supposed to stay engaged in a new post that comes into my home thread. Obviously there won't be any comments as soon as it pops up. But what if I want to see later what other people have written? Do I just have to bookmark it and then remember to go back and look?

[privacy1st-de]

I've written a Python program that generates an RSS feed with news from a Toot (new replies and edits). Maybe this is helpful in the meantime:

Source Code: https://codeberg.org/privacy1st/MastodonTootFollower
Demo: https://mastodon-toot-follower.privacy1st.de/

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I was able to learn some Flask and Jinja2 along the way ... so please excuse that I have not directly contributed Mastodon 😅

[nd-]

Very good idea, I would use it very often, for example when someone asks a question and I'd like to see the answers.

[turvanen]

I'd like to have this but also sometimes to get notifications only when the thread is being expanded (ie. exclude replies by other users). It'd be very useful for following updating news threads, long link collections, follow recommendations etc, especially in cases when they are updated only rarely.

[brendanjones]

So that we're clear, what are people expecting when they follow a toot?

Would you want to get notified about:

1. Top-level replies only, by the author only
2. Top level replies only, plus replies by the author at any depth
3. Top level replies only
4. All replies at any depth

[placoderm]

I'd be happy with #4. Either I'm interested in the conversation or not.

[nd-]

Same here, 4 (all replies) seems more logic and usefull to me.

[robsonsobral]

I would be happy with the option 4. Sure, the conversation can go far beyond what I'm interested in, but I can just stop to follow it.

[yoshimo]

If ALL is available, the client can still filter down and add context around it if need be.

[kefir-]

As the author of duplicate issue #25503 and contributor to duplicate issue #23702, I think number 4 is the feature that is worth pursuing. I often see interesting questions in my feed, and I want to watch how the discussion develops but there's currently no way to "subscribe" for notifications. Both Facebook and friendica have this feature already.

Manual workarounds like keeping an open tab in the browser for each interesting thread, or adding each post as a favourite and checking back regularly for new replies aren't realistic ways to build a community.

[Mart-Bogdan]

I think ideally all 4 would be useful.

And let user chose. Filtering could be done on user's server or at client side.

Would be really nice to have