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A poll: are followers-only posts on Mastodon public? (infosec.exchange)
submitted 11 months ago by jdp23@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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On Mastodon, Followers-only posts are only visible to your followers -- and to admins of any instances your followers on. But if you haven't turned on "approve followes", anybody who's logged in to an instance you haven't blocked can follow you and get access to your followers-only posts.

In your view, are followers-only posts public?

The linked post is a Mastodon poll, and I'll also put in replies here so that you can just upvote the ones you agree with!

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[–] heavyboots@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I mean it’s pretty much the same as Twitter? All your posts are public* and anyone can follow you unless you activate the follower approval option. It’s the first thing I did when I created my Mastodon account. (And the first thing I did on Twitter as well.)

  • Actually now I think about it, on Twitter I also made my account private immediately.