@RunningInCircles Thank you! :3

@Nocta Oof that is not fun to get your head around!

@Nocta @cassolotl I'm really sorry to say this isn't it either 🙃

It's people who follow you and the person you're directly replying to. If you're replying to a toot by Bob who also tagged Alex and Cas then they have to follow you and Bob to see it in their timeline, regardless of what your toot's publicity level is.

@InspectorCaracal @Nocta Oh this is actually what I assumed it was! *relief*

@cassolotl @Nocta You can *access* that follower only toot in the reply thread if you follow the person who made it, regardless of who they replied to, but replies to people you don't follow don't *show up* in any of the main feeds.

@InspectorCaracal @cassolotl
@cassolotl @InspectorCaracal

I wasn't speaking about the main feeds, I was speaking about your own feed.

Maybe it behaves like you describe, but the example you gave behaves the same with what I described and what you described.

The thread looks like this :
Alex : "Hey Mastodon !"
Bob : "@Alex Hey, did you met @Cas ?"
You, in "followers only" mode : "@Bob I'm not sure Cas still comes around"

Now, me, if I follows you and bob, I'll see your toot. Otherwise, I won't see it.

I said it was because Bob was the first person mentionned in the toot. You said it was because you answered Bob's toot. The result is the same here.

@Nocta @cassolotl It isn't, though, because you can move the mentions around and sometimes mastodon does, so the order of the names is irrelevant

@InspectorCaracal @cassolotl

Okay, I didn't know that, thank you for the info ^^

@Nocta @cassolotl You're welcome, glad to help. :)

@tuxicoman @gargron Yes, they are.

@kodama Heh, that's an amusing way to see it, I approve. :D

@shel I realised that and wrote a new one! https://cybre.space/@cassolotl/98998860005309510

@cassolotl nice

@dragonluvr89 You're very welcome, I'm glad it works for you! :)

@einebiene In 2.0.0 there are some more private things that don't federate to incompatible instances (non-Mastodon, earlier versions of Mastodon) - but I don't know enough to comment about that. :S Hopefully someone else can do so!

But having said that, the vast majority of people newbies will bump into for a while after joining will be on Mastodon specifically, and I don't want to add confusion unnecessarily.

@galaxis Yeah, it's just there to keep stuff out of the timelines that don't add to the local/global conversation. It's assumed that you want people to see it if they go looking for your profile, I think!

@twitter Thank you! :)

@Wolf480pl Sadly not! If it's unlisted, it doesn't appear in public timelines or hashtag searches. Personally I think hashtagged posts should appear in hashtag searches even when unlisted, and I think there is a feature request/bug report about this, but at the moment if you want it to appear in hashtag searches the post privacy has to be set to "public".