or maybe more general #Fediverse crowd: Given some communication over here recently, I wonder whether it’s possible to compose posts that are visible to followers only but for which _each_ of my follower is able to see each response and able to interact with each other person responding there no matter whether these people follow each other too?
@hoergen Forum / group seems similar but unrelated; in this case, don’t I need everyone I would like to address to be in that group / on that forum then?
@z428 yes everybody has to be in that forum or group. That what you are trying is something like a “private public post Chimera”.
You can do that if you have every other node in the fediverse under your personal control. Since this might a little bit difficult and guides to some serious discussion potential besides the node owners (and users) you should maybe rethink the reasons why you want to do that.
The more polite way of “grouping” people is to ask/invite them to join a group/forum by their own free will. There might be a chance that some of the people are not happy to be put in a half-public “Opt Out” selection by some strangers. :smiley187:
@hoergen Hmmm, I don’t see the problem here to be honest. I don’t _want_ to explicitely add people to a particular group or forum. I just actually would like to be able to send out posts avoiding they’re visible to _everyone_ globally, either by looking at some “explore” timeline or by knowing a link to a post. I’d like to make a restriction that limits posts to be available to people _I_ follow (or maybe mutuals of _mine_) without enforcing that these people necessarily have to follow each other too to reach each others posts. The latter might be perfectly valid but it seems a different use case at least to me.