I just posted a message about a weather report about some snow that we're going to be getting here in #Ottawa, and I used #hometown's very convenient "local only" feature–the main reason that we're running this fork of Mastodon.
By marking a post as local-only, it doesn't federate–it's only visible to users on our instance, https://ottawa.place. The combination of a regionally-focused instance and local-only posting means that I can post stuff like this that applies to Ottawa, without worrying about cluttering up the feeds of my followers that are elsewhere.
Local-only posts and Hometown are one of the main reasons that I'm excited about growing region-specific instances! It means that we can have a nice community here, but still keep in touch with friends, followers, colleagues, etc. from across the wider #fediverse
I just posted a message about a weather report about some snow that we're going to be getting here in #Ottawa, and I used #hometown's very convenient "local only" feature–the main reason that we're running this fork of Mastodon.
By marking a post as local-only, it doesn't federate–it's only visible to users on our instance, https://ottawa.place. The combination of a regionally-focused instance and local-only posting means that I can post stuff like this that applies to Ottawa, without worrying about...
Other neat things about the local-only feature of #hometown:
1. Posts that are local-only are also not visible through the web interface, even if otherwise marked public; try going to the URL for the abov escreenshotted post and see: https://ottawa.place/@andrew/109510021054185991
2. Local-only posts *do* show up on your instance's "Local" timeline, if they're marked as Public