@eso

> mind elaborating on

Sure; the main reason I didn't is that I didn't want to distract. As a secondary concern, those two are, at about 7k and 4k words respectively, the two longest pieces on the blog, and I didn't want to make them *longer*.

GotoSocial has put a lot of effort into trying to reconcile public and private. The signed fetches have been a big thing. That was part of the initial drive for the project: even Mastodon said at some point that they couldn't do more to control who saw a given piece of text from the internet and GotoSocial was formed in order to prove them wrong. The obvious solution is to just encrypt it if you don't want people to see it, but they want people to see the posts, just not people that have *cooties*. It's a kind of neurotic control fixation.

Nothing for it: either they fix the approach or they don't. What they really want is private discussion boards, but that doesn't fit AP very well. You can't convince someone with that approach to chill out: the act of attempting to convince them is confirmation that you're $outgroup and want them to die. So usually better to ignore them, but the Github thread was really interesting, because they are so walled-off that they don't understand why someone would run something like FediList.