Did you know that Mastodon Admins have the power to hide your posts to any user that's not logged in?
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Did you know that Mastodon Admins have the power to hide your posts to any user that's not logged in?
They would have to enable "Hide public timeline from logged out users".
Furthermore, enabling "Authorized Fetch" makes it so that users that are logged into an instance that is blocked, cannot see or interact with your posts.
If these things are important to you, you should discuss them with your admin or consider migrating to an instance that has these features enabled.
Otherwise, every post you have set to "public" can be read by *anyone* via the website.
Also, Mastodon has a built in RSS feed for every profile that cannot be disabled without editing the code. This would allow *anyone* to follow you, even without an account, and you would have no idea about it.
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Felix Urbasikreplied to BeAware :fediverse: last edited by
> every post you have set to "public" can be read by *anyone* via the website
No worries, I thought that's the whole point
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BeAware :fediverse:replied to Felix Urbasik last edited by
@fell same! But some have a misunderstanding that there's some sort of "privacy" here by default. Not sure where that came from, but it's worrisome.
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BeAware :fediverse:replied to Agorakit last edited by [email protected]
@agorakit @fell there ARE those options.
For admins, the previously mentioned options are the way to do it for the entire instance.
For users, you can set your profile to approve follows, that way you know exactly who's following you. Then, you can set your posts to "followers only" so that they won't appear on the web or RSS at all. Then there's the option to hide your posts from search indexing as well.
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Harbinger of Salemreplied to BeAware :fediverse: last edited by
@BeAware wont lie; I now believe that Gorgon works for the german gov and that there is hidden code that reads every post on mastodon
Proof? None directly,but thats how i act in what i do and dont post
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BeAware :fediverse:replied to Harbinger of Salem last edited by
@HarbingerOfSalem he browses the topic you discuss very vigorously and silences anyone who doesn't support genocide...
That's one of the main reasons I don't discuss it much. I'd rather not be silenced by the biggest instance and only discuss it in threads and without hashtags.