• freamon@preferred.socialEnglish
    14·
    11 days ago

    It’s a tricky problem.

    If a Lemmy or PieFed [edit: or NodeBB] user Mentions you, it’s because they’re paging you and want to bring a comment to your attention.

    If an MBIN or NodeBB Mastodon user Mentions you, it either because they’re paging you, or because they’re replying to a post or comment chain that you’re involved in (it’s been really noticeable when a NodeBB user has put my name in the post body as an explicit Mention, and then all the replies to the post from NodeBB / Mastodon / MBIN users have then also included it as an implicit Mention).

    The code for Mentions was written before the Notifications table was improved, so it’s feasible that it can now try to accommodate implicit Mentions, but it’ll never be perfect (because how does an MBIN user explicitly page another user that’s going to get implicitly Mentioned anyway?).

    It’s a bit like dealing with a emails from someone who always hits ‘Reply All’ - you’re always being CC’d in, and sometimes it’s relevant, and sometimes it’s not.

    Edited to fix misinfo about NodeBB.

    • julian@community.nodebb.org
      3·
      11 days ago

      just to correct something, NodeBB will not send a mention unless you are specifically mentioned. We do auto populate a mention in the text box though, so it’s probably happening because of that.

      What we also do is send the message to everybody so everybody has a copy. (Everybody is addressed)

      e.g. you should not have been mentioned here.

      • freamon@preferred.socialEnglish
        3·
        11 days ago

        Ah, thanks. I’ve edited my comment to correct it.

        It’s indeed just the Mastodon-style Mentions that MBIN uses that cause a slight problem for PieFed. Nothing is being regex’d, so it’s just the specific use of the Mention type in the tag[] field which it’s picking up, which - as you say - wasn’t included in your comment.

    • Blaze (he/him)@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      11 days ago

      It’s quite distracting sometimes. Maybe we can try to reach out to Mbin devs to see if that can be changed on their side?