Mastodon: Self-replies no longer appear in public timeline
I think this is an artifact of the change to exempt replies from the public feed? I just noticed that if you reply to your own toot (e.g. to chain a train of thought without cramming it all into a single toot, as I am wont to do sometimes), the reply - even though it does not tag a user, and thus behaves like self-replies do on Twitter - doesn't appear in the public timeline. Is this intentional?
fpiesche
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Not quite intentional, no... I was eager to remove the self-join from the public timeline query (the one that gets the parent post for filtering rules), so currently it's simply filtering by in_reply_to_id IS NULL. Perhaps it'd make sense to denormalize that into an additional in_reply_to_account_id because that'd allow to filter by account_id = in_reply_to_account_id for self-replies.
Gargron
on 1 Dec 2016
yeah, I think it would be good for people to be able to join in part way through a tootessay! Maybe it would be good for there to be an icon on toots that are part of a chain? ...I guess I would need to hive that off to another issue? Maybe I will, I guess it's not high priority though :)
paralithode
on 1 Dec 2016
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Not quite intentional, no... I was eager to remove the self-join from the public timeline query (the one that gets the parent post for filtering rules), so currently it's simply filtering by
in_reply_to_id IS NULL. Perhaps it'd make sense to denormalize that into an additionalin_reply_to_account_idbecause that'd allow to filter byaccount_id = in_reply_to_account_idfor self-replies.