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I have seen a number of people create read-only Telegram channels — that they post to, and their audience only reads from, and can comment to their posts.

It feels a lot like a micro-blogging profile.

Except that the presentation is different —

• Telegram doesn't have a concept of a home-feed, that would mix posts from different channels together,
• instead, the channel is a unit, and you see which channels have new posts (and how many are unread by you).

When you press that button (in the screenshot), and publish a post on the Fediverse —

For most users on the Fediverse —

Not only are you publishing that post on your host's website, but —

YOU ARE PUSHING that post to people and machines (including strangers) across the Fediverse.

If you do not want that to happen, then — don't press that button.

Instead, consider a private message, or using something such as Signal.

This is one of the problems with centralized social-media — that your entire online existence and self can be deleted, and often, there is nothing you can do about it

That you can be unpersoned.

On the Fediverse (and other decentralized social-media (DeSo)) — you can protect yourself from this. You can self-host, and own and control your online identity & online self.

RE: twitter.com/SwittCraft/status/

I want to be able to write long-form articles using whatever text-editor I choose to use, editing a file, and using git

Not everyone will want to create long-form content this way — but I want to create long-form content this way

Also I don't just want to put the long-form content on some web-site, and post the URL from my Mastodon account

I want the long-form content to be a first-class ActivityStreams / ActivityPub object. An "Article" or a "Note" if I have to

I noticed years ago that some people use Discord as an alternative to what was traditionally done with mailing-lists.

To keep a list of people. Maybe for a community. Many for an audience. And to be able to communicate with them.

Both people and businesses created these.

I see some people doing similar with Telegram.

Sometimes, with read-only Telegram channels. Although sometimes with everyone posting.

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And just for the record —

Just like everyone else I contacted about their 'discoverable' flag being defaulted to 'false' —

He wasn't aware of the 'discoverable' flag existing (just like everyone else I contacted).

He didn't want to be hidden (just like everyone else I contacted).

He changed it to 'true' (just like everyone else I contacted).

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As it is now, I think the 'discoverable' flag is broken.

And, I think the whole user-experience (UX) around the 'discoverable' flag is poor.

And, I think Fediverse software treating a 'false' value for 'discoverable' as "not discoverable" (rather than "not discoverable" or "no choice made") has hugely negative consequences for the user-experience (UX) of the Fediverse

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So now I have to DM Ben to tell him that his 'discoverable' flag is set to false

He (just like everyone else I contacted) will likely not even be aware that the 'discoverable' flag exists

And (just like everyone else I contacted) wished it wasn't set to false

And then (just like everyone else I contacted) struggle to find where he can set it to true

And then set it