this post was submitted on 22 Aug 2024
19 points (100.0% liked)

Lemmy Support

4979 readers
1 users here now

Support / questions about Lemmy.

Matrix Space: #lemmy-space

founded 6 years ago
MODERATORS
 

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?

all 9 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] 14th_cylon@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Afaik what you are asking is not possible

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

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

[–] mark@programming.dev 2 points 1 year 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.