Is there a guide somewhere on how to use Circles? I kinda get lists, but wouldn't mind reading a bit on how to get the most out of them, too. I did some searching but didn't turn up any clear descriptions.

@IAmErik From documentation - "Circles - You can now create circles with followers in it. When you make a post you can select one or more circles to privately post to and only users of those circles can see your post."

@obi Thank you!

Do you have a link to the documentation where it says that? That's really the question I should have asked. The site I found isn't searchable and I can't find any mention of Circles on it. (Here: docs.joinmastodon.org/)

@IAmErik It's unique feature of qoto. All the unique features can be found at qoto.org/about . Just scroll down to the unique features area.

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@obi I saw than when I joined, then promptly forgot about it. πŸ™‚

There are a lot of other features to explore in there! For instance, There is an option to choose *markdown* as my default posting format, and apply **some basic formatting** to my toots.
(It doesn't seem to work, though - it is selected, but at least when I view the post above it doesn't show either italics or bold. Hmm...)

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@IAmErik That’s weird, I don’t use it much, but always works for me.

@IAmErik italicsand boldand maybe strong worked for me.

@IAmErik I’m gonna keep testing, now this should be smaller and this should be emphasized

@obi
It looks like I have to choose Markdown as my post type. I did that for this reply and put some italics and bold in the first two sentences.

This should be a heading

(for instance)

And this should be a subheading

This is the drop-down I used in the web UI:

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