CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@dahukanna @evan @stefan
I would argue that it should be an option to allow for, or encourage, growing the group with replies.
But for certain, this shrinking of the audience (to the intersection of A and B) should be an *option* for Bob. Bob may not care to restrict their replies to their own followers. Bob may want to talk to everyone seeing the OP.

@nicholas @evan @stefan that's simple, but I don't agree. I think an open conversation protocol in this age (just describing #ActivityPub that way) should give conversants a means to set intention to grow the conversation, tools to do so (include my followers), and a way to reverse that intention (this tangent is getting specific…) and tools to do so such as limiting to the intersection of groups.
I am essentially describing boolean operations with groups.

@evan @stefan
current behavior with the addition that I can boost replies (and replies to replies) so that my followers can all see as much of the thread as I curate. If I don't boost a reply from Bob, a reply to Bob could still be boosted by Bob to Bob's followers, which I may never even see.

@evan @stefan what I *want* is to be able to choose between three things, none of which match what I expect.
A: every reply is essentially a DM from the perspective of the replier, *and* a followers-only boost from the perspective of my followers. Basically a closed group.
B: every reply grows the circle so that the followers of the replier can see the whole conversation. This could be a great default setting.
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@evan @stefan
This has always irked me. What I want and what I expect are different.
I expect replies to *followers only* posts to be visible to the replier's followers, only. And yeah, that means they get a hint about me, and can't see my post, and therefore it's just all-around inappropriate.
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