Is there a privacy option for "show this on my instance's local timeline but not federated timelines on other instances?"
Once I actually make more friends here, private/unlisted posts can always be a thing though :)
@starkatt I wish there was! It's something that has been actively discouraged/disabled in Mastodon development :(
@vahnj That's a little disappointing but I can see why, if they want to work like birdsite does. Part of the appeal though is, well, not working like birdsite does. At least here I have granular post-locking control -- that's actually one of the Masto features I'm especially excited about.
@starkatt the only option right now is nothing gets posted to the public timeline in general
A couple of topics I'd feel okay talking about here "publically" but only if I felt like they wouldn't risk being spread.
I know awoo.space only federates with whitelisted instances. Maybe that's enough? But mastadon.social is enormous and I don't trust it.