I have a small number of people (e.g., IRL friends) that I want to see everything about, including what those people boost and (public or unlisted) replies they make.
Clicking on the "notification" bell for these people doesn't show me their replies or boosts. Adding them to a list (this may be @QOTO specific) doesn't show me their replies (except possibly to people I follow).
Is there any way to do this other than in my Home timeline? It seems that, if I don't want to have stuff from this inner circle swamped by the people and hashtags I follow in my "second tier", I have to add the latter to another list and NOT follow them, which seems ... awkward.
Is that the right approach?
@peterdrake @QOTO
If you have them added and notifications enabled, their toots should appear in your home timeline. Are they Qoto users? Mastodon or Misskey users? Additionally, it's possible they edited the localization of their toots to only appear under certain conditions.
Yeah, I'm not aware of anything like that except maybe lists or something? I would ask @trinsec @freemo or @barefootstache
Lists are definitely the way to go and probably filters on top of them. Iirc by default one gets everything from them, so boosts and replies, at least in the home list.
There's also the circle feature on qoto, that can help with additional management.
Some features work better in apps while others on the browser.
@barefootstache @lucifargundam @QOTO @trinsec @freemo No, lists don't work -- if someone on one of my lists posts a reply to someone I don't follow, I don't see it in the feed for that list, even if it's a public reply.
I'm not sure what you mean by "the home list". If that's the same as the Home timeline, that was the problem in my original post -- unless I unfollow almost everyone, it's too easy to miss posts from "inner circle" people in my home timeline.
Yes the home timeline is the home list.
For now, the best approach I can think of is:
1. creating a list of all the accounts you follow. Should be found under export.
2. This list should be divided into at least two sublists $\alpha$ for your "inner circle" and $\beta$ for the rest.
3. $\alpha$ will be allocated to at least the home timeline/list, whereas $\beta$ will get it's own list.
Though I think there probably is a more elegant solution. So hold off until all approaches are stated.
@barefootstache @lucifargundam @QOTO @trinsec @freemo
If alpha is just my Home timeline, I'll see toots and boosts from everyone I follow there.
If alpha is a list other than my Home timeline, I won't see replies there.
That's the problem.
@peterdrake
Lists do allow you to see replies according to its config. Did that not work at all even if you put it to Any followed user? Or are we talking about something different and I misread it?
@trinsec i think @peterdrake is looking for an additional option to show replies to anyone. I've never used lists, but it's pretty weird that's not an option already..
@lucifargundam @QOTO Yes, all this stuff shows up in my Home timeline. My problem is that I want a separate timeline that shows everything for my "inner circle" and nothing else. I can't figure out how to do this other than by using Home for it and relegating everyone else to an "outer circle" list. This would also mean unfollowing members of the outer circle, which seems odd.