@skatan @jef @pluralistic @Difficile
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@skatan @jef @pluralistic @Difficile
I didn't write that it hid it from people who followed you, I wrote that it hides it from public timelines like Local and Federated and hides it from searches and followed hashtags:
Who can see my posts and replies in Mastodon? How do I choose post visibility settings? How do I send DMs in Mastodon? | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
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The reason it's polite to use unlisted for replies in a thread is to stop filling Local, Federated and search results with massive numbers of posts from the same thread, especially as search results are shown in chronological order.
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@pluralistic @skatan @jef @Difficile
It's your call what you want to do, I'm just trying to keep people aware of how this place works.
If you use public for all your posts, your posts will all show up in search results. Because search results appear in chronological order, lots of public posts back to back with similar search terms and/or hashtags could swamp results.
There is a search function on Mastodon, it requires opt-in to be indexed but not to see results:
How do I opt into full text search on Mastodon? | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
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