Priority notifications should also filter likes.

[schmitd]

Describe the Feature

Currently, priority notifications only filter reply and quote notifications, but for popular accounts, a large influx of likes makes their notifications tab less usable. Likes often outnumber replies, quotes and reposts combined; so these should also be governed by the priority toggle. This will mean that popular accounts can see likes from those they follow, instead of having those interactions drowned out by strangers.

The language of the settings toggle would be expanded to include "likes" in the filter description.
I speculate that a backend change to app.bsky.notification.listNotifications would also need to be made.

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My notifications are unusable on this website until I can get such a filtered view. The icon is constantly saturated. There are a hundred notifications any time I look, too many to read. The ones I am specifically interested in, I never can manage to see.

[image of a saturated notification badge within the Bluesky app]

— Sridhar Ramesh (@radishharmers.bsky.social) November 25, 2024 at 12:58 PM

Describe Alternatives

Instead of a setting toggle, notifications should have two "tabs": one for all notifications, and one for notifications only from those you follow.

Additional Context

Could potentially also mitigate the problem of bothersome likes from newly created spam accounts: #4950

[BioTurboNick]

I'll just piggyback here with an alternative idea. Because any post can go big, someone without this option on can still be affected. Likes after a certain point are just a numeric signal, not something that needs individual attention.

If likes on a post exceed a certain amount, they could be batched by number, scaled by threshhold reached, and perhaps notified hourly or daily depending on how fast they are coming in.

[schmitd]

If likes on a post exceed a certain amount, they could be batched by number, scaled by threshhold reached, and perhaps notified hourly or daily depending on how fast they are coming in.

#2059 discusses scheduled batching of notifications.

I think most users want to see likes from people they follow regardless of the amount of traction the post gets. I know personally, it's nice to see likes from friends and mutuals, and I ignore all else. A large following probably just magnifies this feeling. I would hate for those more personal interactions to get abstracted away
Here is some additional motivating context:

Is it possible to do this for Likes? I like being able to see when the people I actually know have Liked my posts, but it all gets swamped out.

[screenshot of priority notifications filter]

— Sridhar Ramesh (@radishharmers.bsky.social) November 24, 2024 at 10:54 AM

I do not need individual notifications for each stranger's Likes. I can just go look at the Likes list on any particular post if desired.

— Sridhar Ramesh (@radishharmers.bsky.social) November 24, 2024 at 11:01 AM