@kissane reply-gating is one of the most efficient...

@kissane reply-gating is one of the most efficient anti-abuse tools available; i wish the ridiculous visibility controls of mastodon were replaced by something actually useful like this…

(and i really would like to know the reasoning behind the “followers only” option that changes the audience from reply to reply because it's always message-specific)

Like 19 June at 3:02 | Wall-to-wall | Open on circumstances.run

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Da_Gut

@mawhrin @kissane I don’t understand the second paragraph, so I see some googling in my future..

19 June at 3:12 | Open on dice.camp

Erin Kissane

@Da_Gut @mawhrin It’s wildly confusing! I know how it works now but it took me months and it’s too near bedtime for me to try to explain 😅

19 June at 3:28 | Open on mas.to

flere-imsaho

@Da_Gut every message set to “followers only” limits the visibility to the follower list of the author of the message + the people mentioned; so if you have a chain o replies set to “followers only”, every single one will be visible to a different group of people. @kissane

19 June at 3:41 | Open on circumstances.run

Ulrike Hahn

@mawhrin @kissane followers only posts are not public so arguably have a different status under GDPR. It affects what others can do with your posts.

19 June at 4:01 | Open on fediscience.org

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