Satsuma @Satsuma@cat.family

@1stSpikeNip hey welcome! feel free to ask if you’ve got quesrions :)

@joonjuliet my replies were all set to the unlisted setting, if you want to see what they look like in practice :)

@joonjuliet ah yeah the name is a little confusing! unlisted is more public than a followers only post (which only your followers, or people you’ve @ mentioned can see) but less public than a standard public post. So an unlisted post wont show up on the local/federated timelines, or in any hashtags but it is visible on your profile and if its a reply to a public post it will show up in the replies to anyone who clicks through. They can also be boosted (retweeted) like public posts

@joonjuliet threads are welcome! but if you’re worried about being bothersome, some people will switch the post visibility from public (the globe) to unlisted (the open lock) after the first couple posts, so that they don’t put a ton of things into the shared timelines all at once

@pamela where are they coming from? Boston’s weather might be a bit much for someone who’s used to the milder winters of the south/most of the west coast

@AAA @MxMorden thanks! i’ve got a few more in this post i made a while back as well — dw doesn’t have the best discovery mechanisms (which in a roundabout way can actually be what makes the site so nice) so i try to recommend the active communities i enjoy when i can

@MxMorden thanks for putting this together!

some more comms along similar lines to your categories that i would also recommend:
beautifulmechanical: music and vids recs, any genres but there’s def a few kpop fans who post there)
bigbangindex, dw_community_promo, and fandomcalender: all good places to hear about upcoming fandom events for various fandoms—esp helpful for new users!
marchmetamatters: upcoming event for organizing and archiving meta! which is always good but esp for people who are in the process of leaving a social media site and might want some support finding and saving the stuff they’ve written there that they want to keep
sunshinechallenge: a smaller event similar to snowflake challenge, but in july instead of january!

@telepathypiper good luck with your testing!

@telepathypiper yes there’s lots of options! my preference is tooot (yes, 3 o’s) which probably has the most minimalist interface out of the iOS apps available right now (which i personally appreciate, tho if you prefer lots of pretty animations and such maybe try toot! or metatext instead?)

@mythologybot well yeah i don’t like it when people come into my house without permission either

@Rozzychan they ran it through once before hand holy shit

@eminthewild hey welcome! feel free to ask if you’ve got questions about how anything works :)

@Betty if you’re @ mentioned in a followers only post or dm you should be able to see the post so i don’t think its that

my best guess is that its a reply from an instance your server has silenced (a sort of middle ground between full federation and full defederation, where you can follow people on the other server and they can follow you but their follows get turned into follow requests and replies from people you don’t know on that server are auto-hidden). I wish the silencing feature could be improved a bit, bc as it currently stands it can be a bit confusing in situations like this