I just noticed that

  1. people don’t read my comments as much here as on Lemmy so I get way fewer replies
  2. someone replied to me and I didn’t see it in my notifications, even after tapping Notifications, so I had to go to the thread where he replied to me, check out all my 10+ comments, and see that one of them had a reply. I saw no other way to find this.
  • Killakomodo@kbin.social
    10·
    1 year ago

    Yeah the fact that was not on by default was weird, it’s kinda needed for good interaction between people.

  • dannekrose@kilioa.org
    4·
    1 year ago

    @kill

    Do you have your notifications enabled in the Settings tab of your account? If you click on your account name and select Settings, on the General tab underneath the Writing and Privacy sections should be the notification section to choose what to enable.

      • dismalnow@kbin.social
        2·
        1 year ago

        I have had reply notifications off on reddit due to the pedantic, combative, “talk at you” atmosphere that metastisized over the years - so I was pleasantly surprised.

        IMO - the first thing you should do with new software or services is go over the settings because the defaults are likely not for your benefit.

        Opt-in philosophy > opt-out. You want it? You enable it.

        • kill@kbin.socialOP
          2·
          1 year ago

          what is this “talk at you” atmosphere?

          and i know that you should check the settings but i’m just a bit dumb and, while i know it, i don’t always do it, because i forget :) but yeah i’ve always known that’s best practice.

          • dismalnow@kbin.social
            3·
            1 year ago

            @kill

            @dannekrose

            Checking that the settings aren’t going to own your firstborn is a should task, but I’m lazy too. :D

            “talk at you” atmosphere

            There’s probably already a common term for this, but I use that terminology.

            “Talking at you” instead of “talking to you” is where a responding comment isn’t necessarily off topic, but it’s also not directed at you. “Talk at you” style commenting is purposed to leverage what you’ve said for pushing an agenda, or as a writing prompt - often due to where your comment is positioned. Any response which doesn’t coincide with the user’s agenda doesn’t receive any sort of organic response.

            It seemed that “talking at you” grew to be the general mode of conversation on reddit as it grew too big. Organic conversations rarely occur because people end up just shouting their opinion into the void, competing for visibility by hanging their agenda on the most visible and tangentially relevant comment in a thread, or just plain shitposting the same dumb thing that is likely to generate imaginary internet points.

            Hope that makes sense. heh

  • asjmcguire@kbin.social
    3·
    1 year ago

    You probably want to go and check your settings - scroll to the bottom and check which boxes you have ticked. I think by default mine was only set to notify me if I had replies on MY OWN posts, but not if someone replied to one of my comments on someone else’s post.

  • olorin99@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    There are some setting for reply notifications. I enabled them all and get notifications for replies. It might be good to have them enabled by default tho.

  • Wander@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    I noticed the same thing.
    After turning notifications on, I didn’t get notifications for a comment I made before I turned them on, but I did get one for a comment I made after.
    Maybe the notification settings only apply to new posts?

  • Liontigerwings@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    Maybe I’m too dumb to understand the notification setting but which options do I tic to get it to display notifications like it would on reddit. In other words, on my comments I’ll get any direct replys, but on threads I post myself, I get notified of all top level comments, but not the replies to those comments.

    • DarkThoughts@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      Swap 1 with 2. 2 means you would get notifications in a thread submitted by you, by people replying to comments from other people.

    • kill@kbin.socialOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      I think comments may be processed as posts so it might be the number 3 but i’m not sure, maybe test it :)

      • Friend@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        As far as I can tell a comment is a response to a thread. A post is a microblog entry and a reply is a response to a post.