🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

@hansw Agreed, its something I intend to continue working on. Circles is just a first step.

@fruitywelsh Hey, great to have you here. How are you?

@hansw Yea I think I see what you mean.

I think we might be able to do that by combining groups and circles. Groups currently can already do private groups, they aren't public. but they dont add the level of control that circles adds either.

In other words if a group is private you can not see posts to the group if you aren't in the group, and you cant get into the group unless the owner lets you in. So groups would get you part of the way to what you want.

But I agree there needs to be a little more added on top to make it work int he way you envision, which would be nice.

@khird

Yea, though for that we need the clients to play along too, so its harder to solve.

@hansw

@hansw In that case to get that effect you'd use groups. You view the group and you would see only the content intended for that group.

I havent tested this but should be possible to filter by group and by user so you can see just a particular users posts in the group in the way you wanted.

@hansw Thats the function of lists. With a list you can view all the posts by the members of that list in its own timeline.

@khird

Yes thats correct, whoever can see it at the time of post is fixed unless you edit the post.

@hansw

@hansw Ahh I see, well glad these fixes directly address that.

@hansw

Fixing the ability to edit posts is something I intend to address eventually. But thats a big edit.

@khird @cwebber

@hansw What were your concerns about mastodon?

@khird

Well thats tricky. Because your original message is cached and messages are assumed to be immutable in the fediverse you should not be able to change it after the fact unless you delete and redraft.

@hansw

@mike

We are a fork, you can see our full feature list at https://qoto.org/about/more

@hansw

@hansw circles is a permissions thing.. Before circles you could either post publicly, followers only, direct, or unlisted. Circles allow you to restrict the permission on viewing a post to a specific set of followers. Think of it like a direct message but instead of needing to list the people who can see it by tagging them in the post you can now limit it based on circles. So only people in those circles can access it or see it at all, but they wont get notified as they might with a mention. So no harm done if your circles are very large, its just followers only but restricted to a smaller scope.

Groups are entirely different. A group is a special account such that if you make a post and mention the group account in a tag the group account will repost your toot from the group account. this way anyone following the group account will see messages from anyone who happened to tag the group. This allows people to join groups by following them and posting to the group by tagging the group. Its similar in concept to groups on facebook where members of the group can add posts shared by the group.

@hansw Can't just yet, but will have the groups server up in about an hour and then you can.

@Sphinx Probably wouldn't be too hard to add, but why?

Found some last minute bugs in the group server I've been trying to bring up. Just fixed them.

Managed groups will be on QOTO any day now!

@amerika

There is literally nothing in this response that lines up with reality.. Most ordinary people do tend to care about mental health, it is a big topic in america.

The idea that their options are an insane asylum for life or the ground is also completely disconnected with reality. The vast majority of people who need to be treated for a mental disorder go on to lead healthy lives, the ones who never really find an effective treatment and need to stay locked up for life are quite rare.

@kino

@amerika

No one called you any names, what are you on about?

@kino

@amerika

Clearly you have never worked much with people with mental disorders because thats a whole heap of ignorance and far from accurate.

The vast majority of people with mental disorders who can afford it and have the means tend to seek help and ultimately take what treatment works for them. Yes some people do go off their meds, but they are a minority.

Probably a classic case of ignorance coupled with the fact that your more likely to notice or remember the cases that go off their meds meanwhile those who actually take their meds you'd probably never even knew had a mental disorder to begin with.

@kino

@mur2501 Ahh yea, probably, looks like it.