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kensanata / bitlbee-mastodon

A Mastodon plugin for Bitlbee
https://alexschroeder.ch/software/Bitlbee_Mastodon
GNU General Public License v2.0
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Add "quiet reply" #25

Open SoniEx2 opened 6 years ago

SoniEx2 commented 6 years ago

A "quiet reply" is a toot which is linked from the parent toot and also links back to the parent toot, but doesn't notify the parent tooter.

It's useful when making LB comments, or just adding a CW when the original lacks one.

Example:

qreply 26 LB: don't actually do this
<something about successful reply>
boost 26
boost 27

Then someone seeing the "LB" toot can find the parent toot, and vice-versa.

kensanata commented 6 years ago

Possibly related to #18. I'm not convinced that "qreply" is a good command but we need some sort of command which allows us better control over the mentions.

SoniEx2 commented 6 years ago

comment then?

kensanata commented 6 years ago

I don't know. I checked the Twitter protocol implementation and saw that they use rawreply. I guess we can always change the name of the command once somebody implements it. See code.

SoniEx2 commented 6 years ago

I would like "comment" feature because it's basically commenting without a notification. while replying would always have a notification.

but yeah I guess name can always just be changed.

kensanata commented 6 years ago

Works for me.

kensanata commented 6 years ago

As an aside: I sometimes see replies in my Mastodon Notifications where I am not visibly mentioned. See example. I was "mentioned" but my nick does not appear in the content of the status.

SoniEx2 commented 6 years ago

that was made by a non-mastodon thing. mastodon things don't have that issue, you can properly comment (without mention) when using real mastodon.

iguanaonmystack commented 6 years ago

My 2¢: bitlbee aims for a common vocabulary across all its protocols, so third parties ought to match its vocabulary too. I personally don't want to have to switch between rawreply and something else depending on whether I'm in a twitter channel or a mastodon channel. This feature should be called rawreply if it works like twitter's rawreply.