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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@lunasspecto @ramsey as always seems to be the case with #masto UX, there's some interesting discussion from back in the day:
Okay so like. Unlisted means "does not appear in public timelines". A hashtag timeline is a public timeline. I think we're pretty clear on this. Use case:
Talk about #followfriday without interrupting real #followfriday toots.
@lunasspecto @ramsey oh yeah and a couple comments later, the origin of the warning we have now:
I don't fundamentally disagree with that, but it's not explained anywhere in Mastodon and it's quite confusing. I think the following things should be done to limit that confusion:
Ben Ramsey
gemma lynn ⇒ ello@void
Dominique Cyprès
#hashtag is written down in the toot text area and the privacy setting for the toot is “unlisted”@ellotheth @ramsey Maybe it's just me but I would use # FollowFriday or #/FollowFriday if I wanted to talk about a hashtag without getting into the searches.
I would like to use hashtags in unlisted posts so I can do mildly self-promotional stuff without showing up in the Federated and Local timelines, though. But it seems unlikely to change now after people have had a few years to get used to it
MrCopilot