Should the Fediverse have a "friends of friends" audience option?

[evan@cosocial.ca]

Should the Fediverse have a "friends of friends" audience option?

#EvanPoll #poll

[zkat@fedi.zkat.tech]

@evan this is too complicated.

[tattooed_mummy@beige.party]

@evan idc

[evan@cosocial.ca]

@zkat that's interesting! Do you mean, complicated to implement, or complicated to understand?

[evan@cosocial.ca]

@Tattooed_Mummy great, feel free to skip the poll, then.

[tattooed_mummy@beige.party]

@evan thank you, i did

[zkat@fedi.zkat.tech]

@evan complicated for users to effectively use.

[lina@tech.lgbt]

@evan yes, and there should be customizable audiences like facebook's "close friends"

[naramoore@sakurajima.moe]

@evan

Instead, they should fix the "Only Friends" option on replies. It's just weird and broken.

[evan@cosocial.ca]

@NaraMoore yeah, it's stupid.

[evan@cosocial.ca]

@NaraMoore long discussion here

https://cosocial.ca/@evan/116029846041824163

[mamalake@beige.party]

@evan @Tattooed_Mummy this looks a lot like responding Waffles

[naramoore@sakurajima.moe]

@evan

I am familiar with this discussion and am in the "Alice's followers only" group. This was the OP's intent to start and means a consistent audience rather than a conversation that fades in and out.

I am not a fan of multiple options as this increases click counts for everything.

[evan@cosocial.ca]

@NaraMoore I agree! The good news is that ActivityPub supports this out of the box; it's what we expected people to implement. So, it's possible to have a Mastodon fork or another platform implement this.

[eco_amandine@mastodon.cr]

@evan no but you should be able to select the audience of your posts, like the old circles.

[the_moep@mastodon.de]

@evan
No, but it should have circles.

[dentaku@fnordon.de]

@evan I'm all for additional scopes, but before "friends of friends" I would rather have a "local" scope like some server software already supports it (e.g. the hometown fork of Mastodon).

[evan@cosocial.ca]

@dentaku I somewhat agree, but I think that should be implemented as a group.

[slim@mastodon.tn]

@evan I thought it was fof feed. *that* would be cool

[the_rebel@procial.tchncs.de]

@the_moep@mastodon.de It’s been around for a very long time, just not on Mastodon

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