Just Jules @Jules@witches.town
queer enby trans autistic alien with a dog (yes of course I love cats too <3). Mostly tooting in german on this account, visit me on @Jules for all the english tooting and tech stuff and feelings and all the rest.
@alyx Yes, I'm aware of this risk of decentralized systems in general.
"privacy heaven" was bit of an exaggeration on my side.
I guess it's a good thing to be able to toot just to the local instance. "Toot to followers only" is just the wrong description for this option.
@alyx thanks!
So it is not possible to get toots out to all my followers privately, if they are not all on one instance.
So really... the advertised privacy heaven is only working on local instance.
@alyx This is very confusing ...
so this part isn't entirely true
"once a toot is federated it is on the remote instances forever;"
it seemed true for direct toots i sent to my other account, which never deleted remotely. but i just successfully deleted a public toot and it disappeared on the other acct.
someone just confirmed my observation that remote direct toots don't seem to disappear when deleted
so
public delete
direct don't?
just now sent unlisted and private test toots:
- unlisted was only visible remotely if i directly viewed my timeline in 4th column. did NOT show up in my follower tootstream. had expected it to.
- private was not visible on remote instance, as expected
Thanks for the welcome everyone :)
Love to see so much French around here!
Guess I'll write mostly in German and English. But you can talk to me in French, if you like. I should get most of it, though my active French is ... lost in space ^^
current thoughts on mechanics of posting sensitive content here; anything wrong?
toot unlisted: visible if rando views yr timeline; goes to all followers; seems? to be excluded from tag search, even if you tag it (though why would you)
toot private: only visible to followers ON YOUR INSTANCE; those off-instance cannot see, i'm told
toot direct: must list all recipients, so only feasible if you're only including a few people
general privacy: once a toot is federated it is on the remote instances forever; you lack ability to delete everywhere but yr local instance. therefore use an external hosting site for sensitive images so you can delete them at will.
Salut witches!
New alien in town 👽
Like it already!
@kathikaffee Halloho! 🐑
Ich sitze hier noch ein bisschen überfordert rum. Für ne Weile. Und gucke mir alles an.
Aber hallo schonmal :)
@fruchtblase thanks! 👽