Over the weeks I’ve sent a bunch of messages, like offering mod positions, asking for things etc. and I get no responses to about half of them.
Sure, nobody owes me a reply, but I’m wondering if there’s a different reason, such as:
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Ignoring all notifications, because there’s no immediate distinction between a DM or a comment reply
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Using an app that doesn’t support messages (which one would that be?)
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Federation issues (when sending a DM to a different instance)
Thoughts?
Liftoff is a pretty popular app and it doesn’t have DM support either.
It supports messages.
Where? If I click on my profile I only see messages I’ve posted.Oh, it’s the bell at the top left, I had no idea. Kinda the same ambiguous UX as on Lemmy, would be nice if it had a dedicated inbox tab on the bottom.
Send me a msg, I am on my own instance. Best way to double test it!
I did
Msg received, all ok, so federation is not the thing.
Yup, at least not at this moment.
Yeah, federation is being creaky globally right now. The GitHub issue list is littered with admins reporting intermittent federation issues.
I wouldn’t expect it to repeatedly prevent communication though. Just maybe some intermittent issues occasionally.
Generally people tend to ignore stuff they’re not interested in, so mod offers may just fall on people that aren’t interested.
Maybe your messages are unasked for? If no one is asking for volunteers for moderation and you’re sending them messages, of course they’re going to ignore it - it’s spammy behavior
Are you for real? If I see that someone is posting daily in a community, they’re obviously passionate about the topic, and I send them a message politely offering them to be a mod, that’s spam? Jesus Christ, what do you expect before being allowed to send someone message, a written invite with a cake?
This is the kind of nonsense that gets people to throw the “snowflake” moniker.
For the record, a bunch of people respond with “I’m honoured, but I’m too busy, sorry” kind of reply, and some happily join.
This type of behavior isn’t a good look. Take it back to reddit
When I spun up my own instance I tested DMs back and forth and had no issues, there’s nothing special you need to do for that.
I’m thinking more between instances where one or both might be overloaded. But I see even under normal conditions some things don’t federate properly, so I dunno about messages.
I use Memmy, and there’s no obvious DM section that I can find.
That might be the key to the mystery.
I just checked: there is an option for them in Voyager, nee wefwef.
That and the option to go back to the post - instead of just your comment - under your comments makes Voyager a tempting switch, but I’m getting used to Memmy and it seems to load faster.
I’m torn. :/
¯\_ (ツ) _/¯
When I was using Jebora I didn’t receive any notifications of comments on my first post. Not sure about direct messages but probably same thing, people just aren’t being notified, they’d have to go and check.
It works pretty well for me. (But yes it might also be a problem for some, who knows.)
