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Mastodon’s new notifications won’t blow up your phone after a viral post anymore

Mastodon’s new notifications won’t blow up your phone after a viral post anymore

Following 11 months of testing, is releasing one of its biggest updates of the year. In a attributed to CEO and founder Eugen Rochko, the non-profit detailed its 4.3 release on Tuesday, promising improvements for nearly every part of the social media experience.Perhaps most significantly, Mastodon has overhauled how notifications work. To start, the platform will now group boosts and favorites together so that users aren’t bombarded with notifications when one of their posts goes viral. At the same time, Mastodon is introducing new filters to make it easier to ignore notifications from people you don’t follow, newly created accounts…
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Threads will show how many followers you have in the fediverse

Threads will show how many followers you have in the fediverse

Meta has been steadily improving Threads’ compatibility with the fediverse over the last year. Now, the company is taking another significant step with an update that allows users to see more details about their followers and interactions with people from other servers across the fediverse.Up to now, Threads has surfaced replies from Mastodon and other servers, and has alerted users to likes on their posts from other fediverse apps. But there was no way for a Threads user to see details about their followers from those services. That’s now changing, Adam Mosseri explained in a post.With the update, anyone who…
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Threads is making fediverse replies more visible in its app

Threads is making fediverse replies more visible in its app

Over the last six months, Meta has slowly begun to make good on its promise to make Threads compatible with the fediverse. The app allows users to share their posts to Mastodon and other Activity Pub-enabled services and began originating on those services earlier this summer.Now, Threads is making those replies even by allowing users who have opted in to fediverse sharing to see replies on other people’s posts. With the change, a new “fediverse replies” section will appear underneath posts that have drawn replies from Mastodon servers and other federated accounts. ThreadsPractically, this means that a lot more fediverse…
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