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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?

@krzysztofdrozdowski @aral

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.

Aral Balkan

@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.