The "unlisted" or "quiet public" post visibility setting on Mastodon is often misunderstood.
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The "unlisted" or "quiet public" post visibility setting on Mastodon is often misunderstood.
An unlisted post DOES NOT show up in search results, trends, hashtag follows or the Local/Federated timelines.
An unlisted post DOES show up in the Home timelines of your followers, including when you make a thread with replies.
If you want to avoid your own long threads cluttering up followers' Home timelines, use a Fediverse server or platform that supports very high character limits.
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The "unlisted" or "quiet public" post visibility setting on Mastodon is often misunderstood.
An unlisted post DOES NOT show up in search results, trends, hashtag follows or the Local/Federated timelines.
An unlisted post DOES show up in the Home timelines of your followers, including when you make a thread with replies.
If you want to avoid your own long threads cluttering up followers' Home timelines, use a Fediverse server or platform that supports very high character limits.
@FediTips I'm still s little confused. Does that mean when I reply to a comment like I'm doing now, using the unlisted option, it will still show up on my followers feeds?
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@FediTips I'm still s little confused. Does that mean when I reply to a comment like I'm doing now, using the unlisted option, it will still show up on my followers feeds?
Only if your followers are following you AND the person you're replying to.
This is the same behaviour as public visibility.
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The "unlisted" or "quiet public" post visibility setting on Mastodon is often misunderstood.
An unlisted post DOES NOT show up in search results, trends, hashtag follows or the Local/Federated timelines.
An unlisted post DOES show up in the Home timelines of your followers, including when you make a thread with replies.
If you want to avoid your own long threads cluttering up followers' Home timelines, use a Fediverse server or platform that supports very high character limits.
p.s. If you reply in either Public or Unlisted, it will only show up in your followers' timelines if they follow you AND the person you're replying to.
They will also see your threads where you reply to yourself.
You can find out more about post visibilities at https://fedi.tips/who-can-see-my-posts-in-mastodon-how-do-i-send-dms-in-mastodon
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The "unlisted" or "quiet public" post visibility setting on Mastodon is often misunderstood.
An unlisted post DOES NOT show up in search results, trends, hashtag follows or the Local/Federated timelines.
An unlisted post DOES show up in the Home timelines of your followers, including when you make a thread with replies.
If you want to avoid your own long threads cluttering up followers' Home timelines, use a Fediverse server or platform that supports very high character limits.
@FediTips Or link to a post on your blog I guess.
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@FediTips Or link to a post on your blog I guess.
If it's a blog that is compatible with the Fediverse (Ghost, WordPress etc) you can also boost the post itself within Mastodon.
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Only if your followers are following you AND the person you're replying to.
This is the same behaviour as public visibility.
@FediTips @mottenfest I see replies from people I follow to people I do not constantly when they are unlisted, I also see unlisted posts with hashtags I follow from people I don't.
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@FediTips @mottenfest I see replies from people I follow to people I do not constantly when they are unlisted, I also see unlisted posts with hashtags I follow from people I don't.
@dhamlinmusic @FediTips I used to have that happen on twitter, and it annoyed the heck out of me.
There was an option to switch it off though, I wonder if it's the same here? -
@dhamlinmusic @FediTips I used to have that happen on twitter, and it annoyed the heck out of me.
There was an option to switch it off though, I wonder if it's the same here?If you follow hashtags, then you will see posts containing that hashtag from people you don't follow.
"I see replies from people I follow to people I do not constantly when they are unlisted"
Are you seeing these in your home timeline? Could you check on their profiles that you're definitely not following them and they don't have any tags you're following?
