Hmm, I would have thought a post starting with @mention would not be visible on the main timeline but only under posts and replies but apparently not.
I guess it’s “full attention of everyone following you” or “direct message.” Would be nice to have “public but I’m not shouting it to all my followers” as the default for @mentions.
@aral isn't it something the Unlisted setting of a post tries to achieve?
Personally I find unlisted really hard to grasp. I believe unlisted posts show up in your followers timeline in the same way as public posts.
They just don’t appear in your server’s ‘Local’ timeline.
@michael @krzysztofdrozdowski Ditto. And we’re supposed to be technically-savvy programmers… It’s really not intuitive.
@aral @krzysztofdrozdowski
I also don’t see the point, tbh. Personally I think a truly unlisted that behaves as you describe would be much more useful.