Gregory's Server@jonny is this setting incorporated into onboarding yet? Most people aren’t going to go into their settings and poke around, so the discoverability of this is basically zero
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 @mattswift @jonny very good points. While I appreciate the concern for privacy.. this is social media. Posting to the internet isn’t private @2du @jonny True, but social media platforms can work as insular/private communities too, so the choice is very important, which Mastodon thankfully provides. It just needs better sane defaults that are based around how people use and expect social media to work, while the others can fine tune how they want things. @mattswift @2du @jonny my understanding is that Mastodon does not provide an actual private setting. Instead, things can be set to be much more difficult to find (like setting a message to “mentioned people only”but that is to prevent noise for others. It does not creat me a true private message. |
@2du @jonny This is my stance too, it should be opt-out, or opt-either, where it asks what you want when you sign up and you must pick an option to use Mastodon.
I suspect most people probably expect their posts to be automatically viewable (it is everywhere else!), and those that definitely don't want them to be know where to look.