technomancynow that I've upgraded to gotosocial 0.21 I'll be muting accounts on mastodon.social that I don't already follow
I get it that account migration is a pain but please consider finding a better instance!
when I first switched to gotosocial in mid-2023 it was a little rough; there were some missing features I had gotten used to from mastodon, but still worth it
over the years they've improved things, mostly caught up, and even gone significantly further than mastodon in some cases (markdown, reply controls)
being able to do this kind of selective muting where it doesn't sever connections to accounts you already follow is the last of the features I was missing from Mastodon!
Ed Davies@technomancy The one thing I find irritating about GTS (as a Mastodon user) is that it treats quiet-public posts as private if you try to browse to them - so there's no way to see a post's replies (or what it's replying to) if they haven't percolated to your instance. I think that's a bug, frankly. Mastodon does let you browse to them.
@edavies I don't know what "quiet public" is, but the fact that unlisted posts are, well, unlisted is ... well, I quite like it
I mean, I will use public if I want a post to be public
@technomancy Dunno but I assume “quiet public“ and “unlisted“ are the same.
Yeah, unlisted is good for avoiding noise on the public timelines. But it's annoying not to be able to see the context of a post you can already see.
I can sort of see why they might do it - to avoid the posts being indexed by external indexers but that only means the posts shouldn't be included in the external timeline shown to non-logged-in browsers, not that they should be hidden completely.
@edavies looking at it more, I think "quiet public" is just a mastodon feature that gotosocial does not implement
But it's annoying not to be able to see the context of a post you can already see.
I think I might see what's going on here; on mastodon you have to leave your app and go to a public view of a post to see the context because mastodon doesn't fetch the thread context in the app (but gotosocial does, so you don't need that)