Is there a way to add notes to other people's accounts?

a-man-from-earth, 11 months ago

On desktop, when you hover over someone's user name, after a couple of seconds a pop-up will appear, which has a field for adding a note. I'm assuming that's private, to mirror how that works elsewhere, but I'm not 100% sure.

Elkaki123, 11 months ago

This wasn’t working, but then I realized you come from Kbin, I logged into Kbin and turns up you guys have this feature! It’s not on lemmy yet.

Kbin looks so appealing, but there isn’t an android app at the moment (right?) and I’m kind of growing attached to lemmy, but I probably will try to use Kbin more once I get an app for it.

a-man-from-earth, 11 months ago

Ah! My bad.

It's confusing as the post appears here to be coming from kbin.social, but now I see it's actually posted in a community on lemmy.world.

twelvefloatinghands, 11 months ago

Sounds like a good idea. I think the place to request/discuss with devs is the github issues

ludw, 11 months ago

I think it depends on what client you use. I haven’t seen it in any Lemmy app but you can find Lemmy users with a Mastodon client and add a note, so I guess it’s up to the various clients to implement.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/ee5b94f5-9732-404d-91d0-a20e1c5733d3.png

Elkaki123, 11 months ago

Wait you could log in to a lemmy instance from a mastodon client? Or did you talke that picture from a Mastodon account?

Having said that this is the closest thing I’ve seen to what I want, only problem being that I would need to use a Mastodon UI which doesnt have downvotes.

Also unrelated, but this is the first time I encounter an image on the comments.

Emperor, 11 months ago

You can follow Lemmy users or communities from Mastodon (and a lot of Fediverse services) but you aren’t logging into your Lemmy account from there.

solrize, 11 months ago

Do you mean private messages? Yes, Lemmy has them similar to Reddit. They are private in the sense that they are not public, but the server admins can see them if they need/want to. On reddit if I wanted to discuss something private with someone I would usually PM them to exchange email addresses, then take it to email. Email isn’t perfectly private either, but I figured at least it would keep away from Spez and company. Beyond that, use encryption, make a phone call, meet in person, etc.

Elkaki123, 11 months ago

Nope, sorry. I’m not talking about private message (dm’s if you will) but instead about notes.

Notes is a little thing you write under someone’s profile so that you, privately, xan remember said person.

Tongive you an example, let’s say we interacted in a post about international politics and you mentioned you are from Zimbabwe. I could add a note to your profile saying something like “from Zimbabwe”, you could not see this note as it would be for myself to cechk if I ever interact with you again.

Many other social media has this features, in discord I use it to check when people change usernames, in mastodon just to remember people, heck even in league og legends ypu can add notes to profiles in game which I use to remember friends of friends when I play with one.

solrize, 11 months ago

Oh interesting, I have never seen that. I do sometimes keep offline notes about discussions I’ve had, like when someone says something interesting about a programming topic. The notes are usually not directly about the person, but of course they could be. Anyway that type of thing belongs on the client side, imho. Lemmy already does too much on the server side.

qeqpep, 11 months ago

Mastodon implements it server-side. It’s just a convenience feature. Like bookmarks, draft posts. Why the hassle?

solrize, 11 months ago

Among other things, that kind of info is private enough that the server should not store it or even see it. You chose an innocuous example “Poster X is from Belarus” but it might have easily been a private thought that you don’t want seen by others. You have to assume anything on the server will eventually escape. So, that info should only exist client side.