If Alice makes a followers-only post, and Bob replies to it, to whom should Bob's reply be visible?
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If Alice makes a followers-only post, and Bob replies to it, to whom should Bob's reply be visible?
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I'm not speaking about any particular two people but if you need it please consider @alice_watson and @bobwyman as the characters in this story.
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I'm not speaking about any particular two people but if you need it please consider @alice_watson and @bobwyman as the characters in this story.
@evan can the reply be marked followers only from Bob's side?
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@skobkin the question is about what that visibility should be.
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@evan Alice, Alice’s followers, and the subset of Bob’s followers that follow Alice.
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@evan can the reply be marked followers only from Bob's side?
@maj yes, that's the default for Mastodon, I think. It is only visible to Bob's followers.
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@silvermoon82 what does the conversation look like to those of Bob's followers who don't follow Alice?
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@evan Alice, Alice’s followers, and the subset of Bob’s followers that follow Alice.
@Jeremiah isn't that third set already included in the second?
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@maj yes, that's the default for Mastodon, I think. It is only visible to Bob's followers.
@evan I'm going to need a diagram! This is like set theory.
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@skobkin the question is about what that visibility should be.
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@evan Since the replie is followers-only, to Bob’s followers. Otherwise information that someone with a private account would expect not to be visible to anyone they didn’t approve could be easily leaked to people that they don’t know.
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@Jeremiah isn't that third set already included in the second?
@evan You're right. I would change my vote, but Mastodon.
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@evan people who follow both Alice and Bob
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@skobkin the question is about how it should work.
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@rune the question is about the correct answer.
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@evan I'd argue it should be visible to the intersection, not the union of Alice and Bob's followers. So basically people who follow both of them. There should also be an option to have it be visible to all of Alice's followers.
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@evan Since the replie is followers-only, to Bob’s followers. Otherwise information that someone with a private account would expect not to be visible to anyone they didn’t approve could be easily leaked to people that they don’t know.
@luana what if there was a clear label on who it was going to? "Same audience" or something similar?
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By default, visible to both Alice's and Bob's followers.
But, Bob should be able to change it. Even making visible to everyone.
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@evan people who follow both Alice and Bob
@adam so, in a conversation with Charlene, David, Evan and Frances, there would just be a smaller and smaller circle of people who could follow along? That seems best to you?
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@evan I'd argue it should be visible to the intersection, not the union of Alice and Bob's followers. So basically people who follow both of them. There should also be an option to have it be visible to all of Alice's followers.
@LunaDragofelis so, just a smaller and smaller and smaller set of people as the conversation goes on?
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