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Is it possible to be notified of replies to replies of my replies? (thelemmy.club)

submitted 2 months ago by dsilverz@thelemmy.club to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

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Firstly, sorry if this is not the adequate place for my question; if it's the case, let me know.

The title may seem confusing, so let me detail it: I'm more of a commenter person, and some of my comments are replied, and Lemmy notifies me of those direct replies. However, there are moments when those replies receive third-party replies, so my comment turns into some kind of "sub-thread", something that's interesting for me to read and follow. For those third-party replies, I don't receive notifications, so I have to access each direct reply that was notified so to find possible "sub-threads".

There seems to me to be no option to "receive notifications for this post/comment/reply", only the automatic opt-in of notifications for direct replies.

So really isn't there such an option? Or is this an instance-specific feature and the instance I belong to (thelemmy.club) don't have it?

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[–] 14th_cylon@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

Afaik what you are asking is not possible

[–] iamhazel@beehaw.org 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It would be neat if you could "subscribe" to a post to get notified of any activity.

[–] mark@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

You can if you use RSS feeds. For instance an RSS feed for the threads in this post is at https://openrss.org/beehaw.org/post/15660443.

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You want a notification if someone replies to a reply to a comment you made, when you're not the one making the reply?

AFAIK, you can't do that: the notifications trigger on replies directly to your comment, and not a reply to a reply.

[–] WhyFlip@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Seems reasonable to get replies to a thread you started or participated in?

[–] dsilverz@thelemmy.club 2 points 2 months ago

A lot. Not the whole thread, but the sub-thread that was started by my comment. I'm both a writer and a reader. I often use my comments to embrace different perspectives or ideas, bringing new possibilities to the table and contributing to the overall discussion, and these comments I made tend to get replies that, in turn, will be replied. This creates a good environment of dialogue, when many people contribute with different perspectives. And I like to read and ponder every one of them.

[–] mark@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Left a comment to another user in this feed. Do you use RSS feeds at all? If so, you can use that to get notifications. But if you don't use RSS feeds for sites, probably not worth it.

[–] dsilverz@thelemmy.club 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I replaced the part of the link you gave and indeed it potentially notifies about every reply on the thread, except that it doesn't work with specific comments (for example, https://thelemmy.club/post/16151677/13197569), only with the entire post. I'm not used to use RSS Readers, but it's worth to know it's a possibility for being notified, even if it works only for the entire thread. Thanks!

[–] mark@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yeah, I misunderstood. Maybe RSS feeds probably aren't a good solution for replies in an individual nested thread within a post.

I can see that becoming chaotic to manage after subscribing to a handful of threads, all in separate RSS feeds. You'd be constantly subscribing and unsubscribing to deal with all the potential noise 😬