@noellabo I have a question about the "Mutual followers only" option. Is it compatible with other regular Mastodon instances?
Besides, last year you said that "circles" relied on some standard that was not implemented in the vanilla Mastodon, so "circle" was not compatible with vanilla Mastodon instances. Is "circle" compatible with vanilla Mastodon today?
@dmonad Posts for "Mutual followers only" can be received on Mastodon v3.3.0 or later servers. Not accepted by Mastodon v3.2.2 or earlier or most other ActivityPub implementations.
Also, Mastodon v3.3.0 internally recognizes it as limited visibility, but it looks like a private post to clients including the WebUI.
"mutual" automatically creates a destination for "circle" and is exactly the same as "circle" as an internal implementation. The compatibility is the same as "mutual".
@noellabo Thanks. Is circle compatible with vanilla Mastodon v3.3.0 or the main branch of Mastodon today?
@dmonad Vanilla Mastodon v3.3.0 accepts circle posts, but they all look like private posts.
With this
1. Because it is indistinguishable from a private post, when the recipient mentions the content of the post, the content may be transmitted to a wider range of people than the circle poster intended.
2. The reply to the circle post is designed to be forwarded to the person to whom the original post was intended. This doesn't work.
@dmonad Oh yeah, there is one more note.
"mutual" can be set to the default visibility.
At this time, the boost will also be "mutual", but this will only reach Fedibird compatible servers that implement "mutual". Visibility can be changed by setting the dialog to be displayed before boosting, so it is necessary to use it properly.
Mastodon v3.4.0 will be able to receive "mutual-boost". If this PR is merged before release.
https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/pull/15776