Hmm, I would have thought a post starting with @mention would not be visible on the main timeline but only under posts and replies but apparently not.
I guess it’s “full attention of everyone following you” or “direct message.” Would be nice to have “public but I’m not shouting it to all my followers” as the default for @mentions.
@krzysztofdrozdowski Possibly; I’m still not 100% sure as it looks the same to me on my account (listed under posts) whether or not it’s unlisted so I guess I’d have to use a second account to check. Not sure if what followers see and what a signed out person sees is the same but guess I can see if there’s a difference when I sign out and view my feed.
@Cheeseness Yep. Tried unlisted but still saw it listed in the main timeline (at least for me). Been using it for what, seven years now? You’d think it’d be more intuitive by now 🤔
@autiomaa@krzysztofdrozdowski Not to mention (no pun intended) that there is a very real social difference between a public @mention that you don’t want to broadcast to all your followers (should be the default) vs a direct message. The default should be that you can say something to someone publicly without pointing at them and shouting “hey, everyone, listen to what I’m about to tell so-and-so!”
@autiomaa@Gargron Not to mention now we’re apparently going to be on encouraging such behaviour by introducing first-class support for quote tweets (sorry, did I just say tweets?)
“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.” – George Orwell, Animal Farm
@decathorpe I just made a case for how it should work from first principles. And yes, that’s how it’s implemented on Twitter (or was, last I know). But the latter follows from the former, not vice versa.
@Skoop@laura Yep. Clearly “unlisted” doesn’t mean what we (or at least I) think it means.
(An @mention really shouldn’t be broadcast to everyone by default to begin with. That’s almost as bad as a quote tweet and I can’t really imagine why you’d use it unless you were calling someone out.)
A Financial Times journalist writes about discovering she’d been surveilled by TikTok.
“TikTok’s ever-learning algorithm, which collected location and information on the content of videos (as well as biometric data such as faceprints and voice recognition in the US) was combined with Musical.ly’s video editing tools, which allowed users to easily replicate and repost clips.”
@gaymanifold Having spent the last decade calling out every fucking Silicon Valley company under the sun, I can at least tell you with a decade of receipts that I’m not calling out TikTok because they’re Chinese ;)