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Wait, are #mastodon lists public? 😰 I'm seeing a very worrying thing about them being used for harassment, but the documentation is scant on access levels (https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/network/#lists). I thought I was just organizing a few accounts into new UI columns for myself (e.g., "Blogs" for federated blogs, "Videos" for peertube channels). Super shitty if lists are public and that's not documented.

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in reply to Melissa Avery-Weir

Jea
Jea
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no, those lists are not public. I think if you would log in from a different browser those columns might even be gone (not 100% sure about that)
in reply to Jea

Jea
Jea
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because I saw it in a different toot of yours to that topic: trunk is "manually" managed and not picked from a user's profile. Last time I checked you had to write a toot with a hash tag to get added to a topic there. So the people listed are not by getting the lists of accounts but because you "register" to be added to trunk (will check that again when I'm at a computer)
in reply to Jea

Melissa Avery-Weir
Melissa Avery-Weir
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@t_jea Ah, gotcha. Okay, that's good to know, thank you!
@Jea
in reply to Melissa Avery-Weir

Jea
Jea
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Sorry for the delay regarding if lists are private or not: The lists you create for yourself are yours only, not to be seen by others. On Trunk are lists that are manually managed. At least thats what I can see from the website. It is not connected or automated with mastodon. It's more or less as if you would keep a list of links to accounts you like.
in reply to Melissa Avery-Weir

brennen
brennen
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that wasn't my understanding, and i can't find any evidence that they are. i'll dig a bit.
in reply to brennen

Melissa Avery-Weir
Melissa Avery-Weir
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@brennen Yeah, I'm wondering if folks were talking about this kind of list, but the variety that are made without consent: https://communitywiki.org/trunk
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in reply to Melissa Avery-Weir

brennen
brennen
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yeah, possible.

in practice i think mastodon's builtin list feature doesn't get a ton of use mostly because a) you can't put people on a list without following them, and b) the interface is just kind of clunky.

anyway i can't find any way to see someone else's lists and the source kind of makes it look to me like you have to be logged in to get at 'em, but i guess take that with a grain of salt (i'm not a rails person):

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/main/app/controllers/api/v1/lists_controller.rb#L7

mastodon/lists_controller.rb at main · mastodon/mastodon

Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community - mastodon/lists_controller.rb at main · mastodon/mastodon
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