Mastodon: Add option to exclude replies from Atom feed

[sybrenstuvel]

I'm currently using If-This-Then-That (IFTTT) to forward my Mastodon toots to Twitter and Facebook. IFTTT uses the Mastodon Atom feed to get posts to forward. Currently replies to other Mastodon users are also listed in that feed, which results in only my half of a conversation being shown on Twitter/Facebook. I'd be very happy if I could let Mastodon exclude such messages from the Atom feed, and only include non-replies.

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[mjankowski]

Can you add any xml-level filters at the IFTTT level?

I believe that reply statuses will have:

    <activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/comment</activity:object-type>

whereas new statuses will have:

    <activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/note</activity:object-type>

[sybrenstuvel]

That's useful info, thanks.

I tried passing "http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/note" as "keyword" IFTTT responds to, but it doesn't work. My guess is that they only match on content, and not on other tags :(

[bmann]

This isn't possible with the simplicity of IFTTT RSS/Atom keyword matching.

Someone writing a direct webhook to the IFTTT maker channel with the Mastodon API could have more control over this https://ifttt.com/maker_webhooks.

I would close this here and continue the discussion in the documentation repo, we are already talking IFTTT there --> https://github.com/tootsuite/documentation/issues/77

[metbril]

The issue is closed but I feel that it is a genuine request for change. There should be a user feed that excludes replies and boosts so only contain new content.

[ViViDboarder]

I agree. If by URL one could filter by adding ?object-type=note or something similar would be quite useful.

Tried to dig through the source, but I'm not super familiar with Rails and can't figure out where the proper code path is.

[thiagomgd]

I agree. I want to have a feed with only my posts, which aren't replies.

[husimo]

I agree to. I would be like to be able to hide boosts and replies. thank you

[Drulac]

I could be really useful