I think the weirdest thing about the way activitypub is currently set up is how reboosting a followers only post will send it to a different audience than the one the author intended...Like, idk I haven't thought too much about this, but it feels like ...
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I think the weirdest thing about the way activitypub is currently set up is how reboosting a followers only post will send it to a different audience than the one the author intended...
Like, idk I haven't thought too much about this, but it feels like it wouldn't be too difficult to set it up so that reboosting actually goes to the same set of followers (when a user reboosts the activity gets sent to the server of the op, which validates it's a real message from the senders server and then sends the reboost to all followers of the op?)
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BeAware :fediverse:replied to Kiran 🏳️⚧️ last edited by
@kirancodes you can't boost a followers only post...🤨
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Kiran 🏳️⚧️replied to BeAware :fediverse: last edited by
@[email protected] oh you can't? Idk I remember some ppl talking about not reboosting followers only posts, maybe it wasn't for mastodon or maybe I'm misremembering
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Kiran 🏳️⚧️replied to BeAware :fediverse: last edited by
@[email protected] ah I was thinking of replies to follower only posts :thinka:
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BeAware :fediverse:replied to Kiran 🏳️⚧️ last edited by
@kirancodes yeah...they're locked for that reason.
There *are* platforms like Pleroma that can make those follower only posts completely public on their instance, but that's a specific instance setting and not the norm.️
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BeAware :fediverse:replied to Kiran 🏳️⚧️ last edited by
@kirancodes hmm...I think the reply is set to the OP privacy setting by default, so one would have to manually change it so that the reply would be public.
Either way, boosting the reply wouldn't boost the followers only post.
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Kiran 🏳️⚧️replied to BeAware :fediverse: last edited by
@[email protected] no not boosting replies? But replying to a followers only post, the reply is sent to your followers, not the followers of the OP
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BeAware :fediverse:replied to Kiran 🏳️⚧️ last edited by
@kirancodes ahhh, I was confused.
That's true.
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BeAware :fediverse:replied to BeAware :fediverse: last edited by
@kirancodes PS. Unless the replier makes the reply public. It's a weird thing for sure.