#MASTODON POST PRIVACY - who can see your post?
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Anyone can see and boost your post everywhere.
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Tagged people
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Followers
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On your profile
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Tagged people
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Followers
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Tagged people
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@cassolotl Just ignore. I found it by myself.
@hery Oh cool, glad you found it! :)
@igor Most instances are updated to a version where direct and followers-only toots don't federate to instances that don't respect the privacy, I think? Did I get that right?
I see the mastodon followers-only postΒ from the accounts I am following. I can repost them, using gnusocial. And then what happends then? I'm not sure at all.
@igor Innnteresting. Could you give me a URL of a followers-only post that you can see from GNU Social?
@igor Ahh I get you. Well, obviously, if you're not up for making the effort then I totally understand! That could be a lot of searching.
What I was curious to find out is the version of Mastodon that the followers-only post that got to GNU Social came from. The version of Mastodon where private posts stopped federating to instances that couldn't respect the privacy was 2.0.0: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v2.0.0 - 5 months ago.
75% of known Mastodon instances and 88% of Mastodon users are on >=2.0.0.
@igor Source for those percentages: https://instances.social/network
@cassolotl
And please everybody keep in mind:
Whatever you'll choose EVERY instance connected with yours will receive every single toot! So don't mix privacy settings of a toot with any secrecy! Your toot is in no way encrypted and authorities could read literally everything.
@cassolotl thank you! Very helpful. ππ½
@donkey Awesome, happy to help!
@cassolotl kinda thought it might be worth a reminder that instance admins are able to operate above and beyond any controls, and then I got silly.
@mike Nice, nice! :D
LB: William Shatner, Lance Ulanoff, and Jack Dorsey need to be on this too. XD
@mike (I just wanted to let you know that my recent subtoot-flavoured post was absolutely not about you - your post made me smile, and was informative without being negative or berating, which I really appreciated!)
@cassolotl hah I was just messing around a bit, glad you liked it.
Of course, if Mark ever sets up his own instance we'll need to revisit this topic again ...
@mike π±β Mastodon Campside Horror Story!
@cassolotl 1) I like calling it "reach", not "privacy" 2) I'd add viewable by source/destination instance administrators all green
@saper Well, feel free to repost and add whatever you want!
@cassolotl I can't produce such nice tables I am afraid :):):)
@feld I mean yes, I feel like that is obvious, because how else can admins ban the nazis? :D
@cassolotl
@feld
I don't think it's obvious to all users at all, especially non-technical users Mastodon tries to aim at.
@cassolotl Can't see unlisted option π€