Diaspora/Website

If you are currently sharing with that person, removing them from your aspects will stop many of their posts from appearing in your stream. A more complete method is to “ignore” that account. This will prevent any of their posts from appearing in your stream, and they will no longer be able to like or comment on your posts. They will, however, still be able to reshare your posts, comment on reshares of your posts, and their comments on posts by other people which appear in your stream will still be visible to you.

A list of people you are ignoring can be found in your account settings under <span class="click">Privacy</span>. To stop ignoring someone, you can remove them from the list on that page. We cover how to change your account settings page in %{part_link}.

You’ve now learned about the activity you’ll be spending most of your time in diaspora* doing: sharing your own content, and commenting on and resharing content shared by others. In the next part of this tutorial we will take a look at “conversations:” private messages shared with one or more contacts.

Part 6 – Notifications and conversations

Notifications and conversations

The last big feature you should definitely know about is “conversations.” Before we do that, however, let’s look at notifications.

Notifications

Clicking the notifications icon (which looks like a bell) in the header bar brings down a scrollable list showing the most recent notifications. If you have unread notifications, this will appear as a number in red over the icon.

Notifications tend to take the form “Person A commented on Person B’s post,” “Person A started sharing with you,” or “Person A has mentioned you in a post.” From this list, you can:

Click the person’s name to view their profile page.

Click <span class="click">post</span> to view that post.

Click <span class="click">Mark all as read</span>.

Click <span class="click">View all</span> to go to the Notifications page.

The notifications page shows you all previous notifications made to you, 25 to a page.

Conversations

A conversation is a private communication between two or more people. To access this feature, click the envelope icon in the header bar.

The conversations page in the desktop interface consists of two columns: on the left, a list of conversations you have been involved in; on the right, a view of the currently selected conversation (if any).

Use the <span class="click">New conversation</span> button at the top of the left-hand column to start a new conversation. The button will open a pop-up window in which you can write a message and add people to include in the conversation.

You can only start conversations with people with whom you have mutual sharing.

When typing a name into the “to” line, the name will be auto-completed, just like when you @mention someone in a post or comment. Click the name of the person you want to contact, add a subject in the subject line, type your message and off you go! It is that simple. You can also use text formatting here, so feel free to add bold titles and big headers in your message.