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Takako 🐀

What does “Unlisted” mean?

(I understand the other three options.😊 sorry, if it’s a stupid question!)

@otterX excludes the post from local and federated timelines, hashtag timelines, and some types of search

@vyr
What Vyr said. I mostly use it when I'm making a thread of several posts. I do the first one normal and then do the rest unlisted. That way if someone clicks on the thread, they'll see the whole thing but it won't otherwise clog up their timeline.
@otterX

@IPXFong @vyr Thank you, both!! 💕

(Ok, in that case, logically speaking, strictly in terms of visibility, wouldn’t it make more sense to have the unlisted under “Followers only” before “Private”?)

@otterX @IPXFong it's more visible than followers only, since it still shows up to anyone looking at your profile page, whether they follow you or not.

@IPXFong @vyr sorry to bother you again, I have another question.

Can a non-follower see the “Follower-only” posts when they check out someone’s profile page, yes?

Thank you.

@IPXFong @vyr You beat me to my question! Thanks!! I got it now.