Sorry for a photo of a phone screen. I had trouble screen capturing the notification shade.

  • can@sh.itjust.works
    12·
    11 months ago

    Hey OP, did you know your account is set to appear as a bot and many might be filtering it.

      • can@sh.itjust.works
        6·
        11 months ago

        Thank you for acknowledging my attempt! I’ve made similar comments to other users at least five times and they all went ignored.

          • can@sh.itjust.works
            5·
            11 months ago

            That’s all I can conclude. I was actually surprised OP replied. But I knew they were human by how they interacted with users.

        • bobagem@sh.itjust.worksOP
          1·
          11 months ago

          Thank you. I’m going to try again now.

          I’m using sync on Android and I don’t believe that I can change the setting there. I can change the setting for whether I filter bot accounts, and so that confused me for a bit about whether I was misinterpreting that setting.

          I did find the setting in a web browser on my home instance. And I thought I corrected it, and I thought I saved my change. Updates and screenshots to follow momentarily.

          Is this a setting that defaults to bot‽

          • bobagem@sh.itjust.worksOP
            2·
            11 months ago

            When I search for this setting in Sync it shows up.

            But when I click on it it goes to a page that does not offer the setting either at the top level or buried inside of anything else.

            When I go to look for this setting again in my home instance, I find that it is in fact now correctly set. It was not correctly set when I posted. So my fix stuck.

            I assume, as someone else suggested, that there’s some caching going on somewhere, either on the transmitting end or the receiving end.

            That’s fair: as far as Lemmy knows it was posted by a self-declared bot, even if that puppet later became a real boy.