Human Web CollectiveIf you mention a group account (lemmy, piefed, guppy, etc
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Jeff Sikes - Hire me!If you mention a group account (lemmy, piefed, guppy, etc.) in your post, fediverse clients should either remove options other than public for visibility of the post (unlisted, direct, followers only), or at least warn the user that their post's audience may not match their expectations.
Hmm.. that’s interesting, why do you say that?
Is it because the content is then available to all followers of that group account, which could number in the hundreds?
Would it be different from if somebody with a large following (e.g. tchambers, atomicpoet) boosts a post?
@julian More specifically for direct and followers only - my expectation is that those reach a specific audience that I chose.
If boosting or quoting IS available on that post, I would expect those boosts or quotes to only appear to my followers and mentioned accounts.
The problem is, not all fedi users are thread-heads 😄 and may not understand the implications of including a group account in a reply - that it will reach beyond the expected boundaries set on the post.
@box464@mastodon.social right. In those specific scenarios, direct and follower-only posts when hitting NodeBB drop into “private note” handling, which will appear as a chat message to mentioned or following users, respectively. It will never end up in a category/group.
I cannot speak for Piefed, Lemmy, or Mbin.
cc @liaizon@social.wake.st
@box464
>If you mention a group account (lemmy, piefed, guppy, etc.) in your post
the problem is that there is no foolproof way of detecting this. something being a "Group" (as:Group) doesn't imply it is lemmy, piefed, guppy, etc.
> implications of including a group account in a reply - that it will reach beyond the expected boundaries set on the post.
i think what you are actually describing is when a *Collection* is delivered/forwarded to, like a group's members. no FEP for this yet...