Hey there followers!

Just to let you know, I usually reply to questions on this account as private messages because I don't want to spam my followers' timelines with lots of replies.

Unfortunately, even Unlisted posts seem to appear in the Home timelines of followers, so I use Mentioned visibility instead (which is basically a DM).

Please don't think I'm being weird if I reply to you privately!

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p.s. To be honest I am still having trouble nailing down how Unlisted is supposed to work. It isn't documented fully.

Unlisted is public but not visible in Federated or Local or Search.

BUT... what about Home?

I assumed it would never show up in Home unless it was boosted, but I've seen unboosted Unlisted replies to conversations I wasn't taking part in.

If someone can point to proper full documentation for Unlisted including its behaviour in Home timelines, that would be fantastic.

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the roamer

@feditips

That makes sense, I once received one such private reply from you and there was nothing weird about it!

Your posts and patient replies, public or private, are a substantial service to building this place. Very much appreciated!

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pihat

@feditips

I had the discussion a few days back

norden.social/@pineforest/1101

and from the replies and my observation I think it that way: Unlisted answers appear only on the home timeline if one follows the you and the one you are responding to.

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L Smith

@feditips
I wondered if mentioned visibility was basically a DM.

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Soskopp

@feditips
Unlisted only affects the public timelines, your follower's home feed is unaffected. But we have the option to hide all replies from our home feed. I only figured that out recently.

Before, I would see entire conversations of unlisted posts between people I follow. Anti-chronologically and wedged between other posts, so it was quite messy at times. Now I don't, and my feed is nice and tidy.

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ShengIntegral

@feditips I'm new in this amazing platform so, I want to understand... I need to type in "@" and the usernames to "mention" them and this is considered DM or private message because it only appears in their private timelines? Please, let me know. Thank you in advance. 🙏 🙂

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CompulsoryAccount7746

@feditips Unlisted also omits from per-user hashtag searches. If you tag an unlisted reply and look for it later with a url like this, it won't come up.

mstdn.social/@feditips/tagged/

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Joshua Crawford

@feditips
I know that it is a different setup than most, but the librem server that I am on has DM's disabled. I don't know if you get a rejection message or if the message goes out to nowhere land. Something to keep in mind if you DM somebody and they don't respond.

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Bill_

@feditips <a href=mastodon.social/@feditips@mstd>mastodon.</a>

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@feditips So I'm a little on clear how this Fediverse thing works... can I not see other instances of Mastadon? I thought it was all interlinked? I ask because I went to Mastadon.org.uk and I see there that my logins arent valid?

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