mcc, 10 months ago

• Now that @Gargron's post is deleted, I can't reply to it. Oops! I start a new post, "unlisted", @'ing Gargron at the start.
• Although this new post is frankly pretty confusing without the context of the post it was replying to, people start boosting and faving it

What is the visibility of posts beginning with an @, but posted to the public timeline rather than as a reply? It seems to me sometimes theyre shown with no filters at all, whereas replies would be filtered to mutual follows.

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Gargron, 10 months ago

@mcc I deleted my reply, since I don't like having orphaned posts on my profile. There is no special handling of posts beginning with @.

mcc, 10 months ago

@Gargron Reasonable (to delete, I mean).

It seems to me filtering posts beginning with @ as if they were replies would be appropriate, because as is replying to someone is like quietly pulling them aside but beginning a post with an @ is like screaming to absolutely everyone. Maybe one compromise would be to have this behavior on unlisted posts (I understand that's a little nonobvious, but maybe better than not offering the feature at all.)