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      @petrescatraian @nutomic I believe “unlisted” on Mastodon is somewhere in between - it’s expected to be publicly visible, but not publicized, i.e. it doesn’t show up in a server’s local or federated timeline. I’m not sure if it shows up when viewing someone’s profile when not logged in.

      Not that this would slow down an AP server that wanted to store it, of course!

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      There may be settings, but most users go with the default which means public posting.

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      @petrescatraian @nutomic I think followers-only posts on Mastodon are closest. Make that your default posting mode and require approval for followers and it’s effectively a private profile. (Again, barring malicious ActivityPub servers)

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          @petrescatraian @nutomic To some extent.

          When you mark a message as followers only, your server only sends it to your followers, and only shows it to your followers who are logged in

          But if one of your followers is on a malicious (or buggy) server, there’s nothing stopping *that* server from doing something it’s not supposed to with the data.

          IIRC it was CloudFlare’s implementation that recently had to fix a bug where followers-only posts were being shown publicly.