Proposed: it is completely, utterly, gobsmackingly horrible that Mastodon users - even smart, highly engaged ones that read documentation and understand federation - *cannot tell* just who is going to be shown what they post or what the various privacy settings mean in practice.
There is an animated conversation going on in the comments of the poll I just posted where we're trying to reverse engineer under what circumstances a comment reply will show up in the commenter's followers' timelines.
That this conversation even exists is, I'm sorry, completely horrifying. The fact that this is even a matter of discussion, to say nothing of needing to be a matter of speculation and investigation, is appalling.
How can anybody make informed decisions about participating on a platform, the behavior which they do not understand and cannot predict?
For instance,
Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis /
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2023-08-07 01:08:27
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