Yes, followers-only posts are public -- upvote if you agree!
this post was submitted on 22 Nov 2023
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Just a heads up: there's a mastodon specific community at https://lemmy.ml/c/mastodon that would be more appropriate for this post.
Thanks, it's a good point!
Public but not indexed and not in your public profile.
Viewable only by someone with a link to the post or thread.
On my instance, the following control measures apply:
- Only public posts are visible through the web interface.
- Only public posts appear on RSS.
- Following requires approval.
- Authorised fetch is required.
So I think I have reason to feel fairly strongly that follower only posts are not public, and even unlisted posts are reasonably restricted.
No, followers-only posts are not public -- upvote if you agree!
couldn't a malicious instance or fork just ignore who is trying to access the data and show all the toots that have been federated at all? anything that can be retrieved by another instance is public
it's kinda like when Steam asks for your age when looking at an M rated game
Anything posted to "Social Media" in any way, I consider public. If you want privacy, you need something that's directly one to one at least, ideally E2EE.
It depends if I've turned on "approve followers" -- upvote if you agree!
I mean it’s pretty much the same as Twitter? All your posts are public* and anyone can follow you unless you activate the follower approval option. It’s the first thing I did when I created my Mastodon account. (And the first thing I did on Twitter as well.)
- Actually now I think about it, on Twitter I also made my account private immediately.