@neil
It's common by me but to cover it I go to the direct messages regularly from hamburger menu and check regularly what has a blue dot showing (as unread / unreplied)
It's definitely something to good to check every now and again like email...
(actually I have proposed we make it more email styled with sortable columns like email... see my "Mastodon Mail" or styling idea below!)
https://qoto.org/@freeschool/108521437249228849
SIDE TOPIC BUT HAVE A LOOK
Replacing gmail with something else.
To get rid of the google email root evil (the base evil for of all our lives) I though using 'mastodon mail' or self-hosting email would work clean us from base surveillances...
So mostly people are worried about spam when self-hosting but spam seems mitigated via purely white-listing (therefore 0 spam on email to block people we don't have add one by one in our mail as a permitted white-list!)
