I truly believe Mastodon should default to posts being `Unlisted` rather than `Public`. 99% of folks don't want to be seen by the entire network out of the gate.

Like, Unlisted gives the *possibility* of being visible to everybody but doesn't put you on the spot in the firehose that is the Federated Timeline

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@Eramdam can't you set it to default to unlisted? or is that a glitchsoc feature?
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