Unlisted posts:

1. Your followers see them
2. They’re public on your profile
3. Anyone can link to them
4. Others can boost them
5. They show up in lists

They do not:

* Show up in the local feed
* Show up in the federated feed
* Show up when searching hashtags

Unlisted posts seem like a great way to post without cluttering the local/federated feeds.

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The federated feed seems pretty useless because it’s a firehose, so hashtags and the local feed of smaller, more-focused instances seem more useful for discussing topics with others you don’t follow or who don’t follow you.

If an instance has a theme, it seems like posting unlisted might be a good way to make far off-topic posts or if you’re generally being noisy.

I’m just thinking “out loud.” None of this will become policy on phpc.social.

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@ramsey I restricted the languages displayed to only ones that I speak to calm down the federated timeline a bit
@ramsey @leanhsi how did you manage to restrict the language in the federated timeline? I should probably do the same.
@richard @leanhsi Go to Preferences > Other and scroll down to Public Timelines.
@ramsey @richard @leanhsi Wow, that is really useful. Thank you for sharing. Also good for languages you're trying to learn :)