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sometimes i think about following @gaycats but then i realize i prefer the hand-selected wife picks from there instead

re: retrospring question 

@MindmeshLink sorry, i should have said GREAT taste

allcaps 

*wrestler voice* I AM THE DIALECTICIAN.. THESIS? I WANT TO WIN. ANTITHESIS: YOU WANT TO WIN. SYNTHESIS: YOUR FACE ON THE FUCKING GROUND

*the crowd erupts in cheers*

@MindmeshLink i don’t know that you’re referring to but i’m sure it was a good post

re: summary of masto privacy levels because why not 

@tully @packbat there already exist AP software that uses circles; that’s why mastodon introduced the limited visibility at all

re: summary of masto privacy levels because why not 

@packbat since october 2018 there has been a FIFTH, undocumented, status visibility, the limited visibility, which was introduced to honor the visibility of google+ circles, which some mastodon-compatible software allows (and which is purrfectly allowed by the AP specs); explicitly mentioned users can see the post, but it’s not viewed as a DM. (the ability to have “silent” (that is, non-notifying) mentions was introduced at the same time so that you don’t necessarily ping everybody who can see the post)

fur some reason, such posts are shown to users as “private” visibility, even though that is not really correct

now the absolutely wild part is that the status creation API endpoint will just let you try to create a limited visibility post!! but that’s pretty useless, because there is no way to create silent mentions from that endpoint; you would have to ping everybody you wanted to see the post anyway as if it were a DM

re: summary of masto privacy levels because why not 

@packbat anyway this does mean mastodon is a bit of hacking away from having circles in some form

(though making a good UI and just overall UX fur this is purrobably nontrivial)

re: summary of masto privacy levels because why not 

@packbat the API docs don’t even mention this! but if you try it, it works! not that it’s useful!!

re: summary of masto privacy levels because why not 

@packbat since october 2018 there has been a FIFTH, undocumented, status visibility, the limited visibility, which was introduced to honor the visibility of google+ circles, which some mastodon-compatible software allows (and which is purrfectly allowed by the AP specs); explicitly mentioned users can see the post, but it’s not viewed as a DM. (the ability to have “silent” (that is, non-notifying) mentions was introduced at the same time so that you don’t necessarily ping everybody who can see the post)

fur some reason, such posts are shown to users as “private” visibility, even though that is not really correct

now the absolutely wild part is that the status creation API endpoint will just let you try to create a limited visibility post!! but that’s pretty useless, because there is no way to create silent mentions from that endpoint; you would have to ping everybody you wanted to see the post anyway as if it were a DM

re: summary of masto privacy levels because why not 

@packbat do you wanna learn about some undocumented post privacy functionality

as a point of clarification, GlitchCat is not the same thing as the cat family. anyway: 

in the cat family we suppurrt the boys in blue

anyway, if you wanna see something kind of funny, try sending a json blob to your mastodon instance’s status creation endpoint where you have the visibility set to “limited” and see if you can make sense of what happens :)

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📟🐱 GlitchCat

A small, community‐oriented Mastodon‐compatible Fediverse (GlitchSoc) instance managed as a joint venture between the cat and KIBI families.