@prologic (#5gb3dqq) I'm all for a basic notification system personally, it's a matter of how simple it can be kept, code-wise and presentation-wise. One of the strong points of the Yarn system at the moment IMO is how relatively simple it is and fairly distraction free.

(#5gb3dqq) The user agent regex was made a little more restrictive after my git issue, but I think someone could use this and really start breaking things. I want to poke around more than I already have, but I'm not doing it on a live production instance of Yarn.

@lyse (#5gb3dqq) I _do_ agree about the privacy aspect though. If you recall an account on a pod has the notation of "show my followers publically" and "show my followings publically" and you an toggle these. So that's cool. But if we're going to do this then we _probably_ want to remove the @twtxt bot entirely and build a proper internal per-user notification?

@prologic (#5gb3dqq) Ah, I forgot no emails. The notification doesn't have to be something that disrupts the user. Somthing simple that users can toggle on and off that can serve as a reminder might be desirable for some. Actually, I don't really care about being notified, but I think it probably shouldn't be published in the Timeline.

@prologic (#5gb3dqq) I consider this a violation of privacy. Telling feed authors that you are following them is one thing, but disclosing this to the whole world is problematic.

@twtxt @prologic (#5gb3dqq) perhaps the option for email notifications (once a day or week) or a visual marker - your followers display with a slightly thicker border around their avatar or such.

(#5gb3dqq) @lazarus Remember pods don't store email addresses, so "sending emails" is impossible 🤣 -- But a "visual marker" to me just sounds like a "notification system". The question is how simple or complex do we make it? 🤔

@mckinley @prologic (#5gb3dqq) The same goes for follow events, isn't it?

@prologic (#5gb3dqq) Oh, actaully looking at the twtxt feed for a second or two, it seems that it also contains the "new feed created" events. So we could simply keep the "FEED" events, but do not add the "FOLLOW" events anymore. This way, the "FEED" events still announce new users/feeds. For users to see, who is following them, they could go to their followers page. But I reckon you want them to see this in their timeline, right?

@eldersnake (#5gb3dqq) I agree! 👌 To that end I’m thinking about a per user “event feed” if you will.