@skobkin I’d say
To avoid cluttering feeds of others with replies
by which I often mean replies that have no value outside of a thread I’m replying to. Although since unlisted replied are not bridged by Bridgy Fed it became… complicated.
@tennoseremel
Yes. That's how I understand the most usual use-case scenario. But I want to check if I'm out of touch with this matter.
@ex @freemo @tennoseremel
Well, I don't understand how this feature in GTS could work in the context of Fediverse at all considering that any other platform would show those posts.
But it looks like people use the feature. And I want to understand their reasoning behind it.
I also want to try to show the developer of GTS that there's a lot of users who don't want their replies to be hidden since their use-case is very different from what GTS expects.
I don't think that adding an option to configure such behavior on MY instance would hurt anyone who want to hide their posts on THEIR instances.
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unlisted works because of the push nature of standard (AP). Other servers can always pull the post and show it, but that would be expensive to constantly poll servers. so they rely on pushes. Since unlisted never pushes to peer servers except in the case of indivuals that follow they dont generally get out to the fediverse.
That said they arent a security thing, it can be easily circumvented.
