Are you mentioned in a conversation that you don't want to take part in any more?
On Mastodon, you can mute a conversation so that you don't receive notifications about it. (It only mutes that conversation, it doesn't mute any accounts.)
To do this, go to the conversation thread, find one of your own posts and click on the "...", then select "Mute conversation".
@feditips What does this do exactly? Prevent the reply tree of the message you've muted from from appearing in your timeline? Or does it also prevent replies to things upthread (i.e. siblings or cousins) from appearing too?
I'm also confused why this action is only available on my posts. This limitation doesn't seem desirable (I might want to mute a conversation that someone cc-d to me, without posting anything), so I would expect the limitation to be caused by the mechanism. However, I would guess that the mechanism behind it is "don't show anything that has <this post> upthread", which shouldn't need such a limitation. Am I misunderstanding how this works?
@feditips @robryk If you are mentioned in a conversation, though, you'll still receive notifications, so there is need to mute. But you don't have the option of doing so.
My workaround is to post a "mentioned people only" message that doesn't mention anyone, mute conversation on that, then delete the "mentioned people only" message.
@wizzwizz4 Oh, so this has some bizarre semantics: it doesn't just mute the subtree "originating" from the message you use, but does mute siblings and cousins too. And yet is not a per-conversation option, but a per-sent-message one. @feditips
@robryk
This doesn't hide conversations, it mutes their notifications.
You can only mute things which you receive notifications for.
If you don't take part or aren't mentioned in a conversation, you will not receive notifications about it, so there's no need to mute.