does anyone know where the rules for mastodon post visibility are documented? often I reply to people and they seem to get put on the timelines of a lot more people than I expected, I feel like the rules are different from Twitter's rules in a way that's confusing to me
this is the only documentation I can find about how Mastodon post visibility works https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/posting/#privacy but it doesn't explain how it applies to replies -- my feeling is that there are some extra rules about when a reply gets put on your followers' home timelines but I can't find them documented anywhere
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@b0rk Another wrinkle I've noticed to this is lists: sometimes replies show up on those as well.
I'd need to experiment but my hypothesis based on what I remember happening would be: Replies are shown if they do not start with a mention, the first mention is someone you follow (or maybe someone on the particular timeline you're looking at?), or the first mention is you.
