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@badrihippo @ted yeah the main tech problem is that Mastodon does not distinguish between

"@-example hello"

and

"hello @-example"

so the main thing that it uses to tell if something is a reply is, essentially, if it is threaded. An originating post like "@-example hi" is not threaded so it counts as just a normal post everyone can see.

I don't agree with this but I also understand that doing a regex to detect a leading @ probably has a lot of unintended consequences you have to check for

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Hippo

@darius never thought of it this way! So you're saying "@-example hello" should be considered a "thread" even if it's the first post (and threads should be given some kind of special treatment such as not showing on the timeline unless someone is directly involved)?

I think the "leading @" detection may be simpler than you say: Mastodon always knows when something is an @-mention so wouldn't we just have to check if the first @-mention is also the first word or there's some text before?

@ted

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