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Unus Nemo

@adingbatponder 👾 @Plan-A

This is a known issue between privacy and other network types on the Fediverse. Because they do not all use an agreed upon protocol to verify users when you make something private on one Fediverse network it will exclude your friends on other networks. The same would be true if you posted something private on Mastodon, even though we are considered friends Mastodon has noway of verifying our identity so it would just block us.

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Unus Nemo

@Plan-A @adingbatponder 👾

Many of the privacy settings on Friendica or any other type of Instance are not going to work across the whole Fediverse. Unless it is your intention to keep everything so only those on Friendica Instances or logged into our Instance it is best to turn those settings off. Until the day when privacy on the Fediverse has a unified way of implementation across network types.

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friendica (DFRN) - Link to source

Unus Nemo

@Plan-A @adingbatponder 👾

If you wanted to share something that only those on this Instance, or a Friendica Instance can see then it would be fine. Though quite often we want all our friends on the Fediverse to be able to view our posts.

Keep in mind that all propagation off this Instance is considered anonymous guests. So you essentially kill your posts ability to propagate to your friends off of this Instance by turning that feature on.

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