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Gidi Kroon

gidi@friendica.gidikroon.eu

TV addict, science fiction enthusiast, proud inhabitant of Earth (our only home).

Trying to show support for films, tv series, actresses and musicians I admire. Posting some tech and politics in between.

There's nothing wrong with fighting for social justice. Black Lives Matter. Gender equality. Fight for a sustainable use of environmental resources.

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#film, #movies, #music, #tv, #photography, #scifi, #actresses, #fandom, #science, #physics, #astronomy, #electronics, #programming, #technology, #android, #politics, #news, #environment

People I'm likely posting about:
Jenna Ortega, Dove Cameron, Miranda Cosgrove, Stephanie Leonidas, Jodie Foster, Alizée, Dafne Keen, Alexa Nisenson, Bella Gantt, Katie Douglas, Ciara Bravo, Amy-Leigh Hickman

Network Posts

Netherlands

https://gidikroon.eu/

Gidi Kroon

2 years ago •

Gidi Kroon
2 years ago •

New Follower Notification

For a while I haven't seen any 'New Follower' notifications even though the number of followers on the Contacts page has gone slightly up. Is there a setting I may have accidentally turned off? I can't find any. I am using an account type 'Personal', sub type 'Soapbox' (so follow requests are automatically accepted and not shown) and the server is on the stable version 2022.10.

Do these notifications work for others?

Is there a way to sort the followers on the Contacts page with the newest first, instead of alphabetically? That would help too.
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Hypolite Petovan

in reply to Gidi Kroon • 2 years ago • •

@Gidi Kroon No matter what the account type you're using, you should always get a notification when someone follows you. I introduced this notification this year because I also runs a Soapbox account and I wanted a better visibility on my new followers.

There's no such sort order yet but it's a good idea.

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Gidi Kroon

in reply to Hypolite Petovan • 2 years ago •

@Hypolite Petovan I think I saw two such notifications earlier in the year when you had introduced this function, previous stable I think, but none since. Other notifications are fine. They work for you?

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Hypolite Petovan

in reply to Gidi Kroon • 2 years ago • •

@Gidi Kroon I've received a slew of them on the days right after Musk completed the Twitter purchase, and the last one I received was 18 hours ago, sorry I can't reproduce your issue.

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Gidi Kroon

in reply to Hypolite Petovan • 2 years ago •

@Hypolite Petovan Thanks for confirming that it is an issue on my side. I'll try some different settings, see what happens. I just did a test with unfollowing/following from another server (Friendica and Pleroma) and no notification appeared.

When I observe the logs on a quieter Friendica server and do the unfollow/follow on an account there, all seems normal and no notification appears. The only slightly related remark is an INFO level "Not an item based notification, quitting". But that is before the NOTICE log message that successfully processes the follow.

I'll see if I can invent some other settings to try. For now I assume that my tests are unsuccessful because these are already existing profiles/contacts.

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