@evan the opaque part is that by accepting a follow you are committing to appearing in the public feed on that follower's server from then on, and thus visible to anyone with a web browser anywhere.
@KevinMarks not true at all! You can easily set your posts followers-only, and then they are only visible to your followers (and admins, ofc).
@evan @KevinMarks I’d love a setting that allows for posts to be public for your local server accounts, but optionally restricted beyond that (except for your followers, which you could set to approve first).
Local server communities are a superpower of Mastodon that I don’t think is adequately enough developed.
@rscottjones @evan @KevinMarks isn't it public on local, but restricted otherwise only possible if the local timeline is restricted? It's a prerequisite in that case.
@rscottjones @mapto @KevinMarks in ActivityPub terms this would probably require a collection of all the members of your server.
@mapto @evan @KevinMarks I’m new to this, but my understanding is that restricting the local timeline wouldn’t work (for what I want), as the post privacy settings of “unlisted” or “followers-only” prevent it from being shown in the local feed.
Basically, I want a setting that allows people to “publicly” interact with all local server users, but choose whether those posts were public beyond the local server (except for home feeds of their followers).