You can restrict the audience of your posts on Mastodon using post visibility settings.
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You can restrict the audience of your posts on Mastodon using post visibility settings. You can set each post's visibility separately if you want, and you can also choose a default visibility.
There are four or five different visibility settings which let you control who can see your posts and how easily they can be discovered.
Instructions on how to set Mastodon's post visibilities (and lots of questions answered about this feature) at:
️ https://fedi.tips/who-can-see-my-posts-in-mastodon-how-do-i-send-dms-in-mastodon -
You can restrict the audience of your posts on Mastodon using post visibility settings. You can set each post's visibility separately if you want, and you can also choose a default visibility.
There are four or five different visibility settings which let you control who can see your posts and how easily they can be discovered.
Instructions on how to set Mastodon's post visibilities (and lots of questions answered about this feature) at:
️ https://fedi.tips/who-can-see-my-posts-in-mastodon-how-do-i-send-dms-in-mastodon@FediTips One day Cory Doctorow will make use of this, and our feeds won't die when he posts his mega threads.
I'd rather have his content than not though, just to be clear.
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@FediTips One day Cory Doctorow will make use of this, and our feeds won't die when he posts his mega threads.
I'd rather have his content than not though, just to be clear.
To be fair to Cory, the "unlisted" setting wouldn't stop his threads appearing in your feed. Unlisted hides a post from search results, from trends and from live feeds, but it doesn't hide it from Home feeds if you're following that person.
The way to avoid publishing megathreads is usually to use a Fediverse platform that is designed for long form posts (Ghost, WriteFreely, WordPress etc) so the entire article appears as one post. I don't know what Cory feels about this option though.
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To be fair to Cory, the "unlisted" setting wouldn't stop his threads appearing in your feed. Unlisted hides a post from search results, from trends and from live feeds, but it doesn't hide it from Home feeds if you're following that person.
The way to avoid publishing megathreads is usually to use a Fediverse platform that is designed for long form posts (Ghost, WriteFreely, WordPress etc) so the entire article appears as one post. I don't know what Cory feels about this option though.
@FediTips darn, I thought replying to your post but unlisted meant it only showed if you viewd the parent post, but it looks like this behaviour changed when making everything "discoverable" was implemented?
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@FediTips darn, I thought replying to your post but unlisted meant it only showed if you viewd the parent post, but it looks like this behaviour changed when making everything "discoverable" was implemented?
It's always been like that unfortunately.
The reason for preferring unlisted in replies is to stop megathreads overwhelming the live feeds (Federated and Local) and also to stop threads overwhelming search results. So, it is still a good idea, but it just doesn't affect the Home feed
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It's always been like that unfortunately.
The reason for preferring unlisted in replies is to stop megathreads overwhelming the live feeds (Federated and Local) and also to stop threads overwhelming search results. So, it is still a good idea, but it just doesn't affect the Home feed
@FediTips Thank you, I appreciate (all your efforts, but specifically....) your help here
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@FediTips Thank you, I appreciate (all your efforts, but specifically....) your help here
Thanks for the kind words
You're not the first person to raise this by the way, there is even an issue to solve this named after him:
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/8615
It would be nice if long threads could be folded together like this, or at least if they didn't appear by default in Home if unlisted was used.
