Diaspora/Diaspora
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Anyone using the internet can potentially see a post you mark public, so make sure you really do want your post to be public. It’s a great way of reaching out to the world.
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How can other people find my public post?
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Your public posts will appear in the streams of anyone following you. If you included #tags in your public post, anyone following those tags will find your post in their streams. Every public post also has a specific URL that anyone can view, even if they’re not logged in – thus public posts may be linked to directly from Twitter, blogs, etc. Public posts may also be indexed by search engines.
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Who can comment on, reshare, or like my public post?
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Any logged-in diaspora* user can comment on, reshare, or like your public post. The exception to this is people you have ignored, who won’t be able to like or comment on your posts.
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When I comment on, reshare, or like a public post, who can see it?
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Comments, likes, and reshares of public posts are also public. Any logged-in diaspora* user and anyone else on the internet can see your interactions with a public post.
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What happens when I deselect one or more aspects in the left-hand column when making a public post?
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Deselecting aspects does not affect a public post. It will still be public and will appear in the streams of all of your contacts. To make a post visible only to specific aspects, you need to select those aspects from the aspect selector under the publisher.
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Resharing posts
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Can I reshare a public post to selected aspects?
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No, when you reshare a public post it automatically becomes one of your public posts. To share it with certain aspects, copy and paste the contents of the post into a new, limited post.
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Can I reshare a private post to selected aspects?
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No, it is not possible to reshare any private post. This is to respect the intentions of the original poster, who shared it only with a particular group of people.
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Sharing
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What happens when I add someone to one of my aspects, or when someone adds me to one of their aspects?
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Let’s say that Amy adds Ben to an aspect, but Ben has not (yet) added Amy to an aspect:
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Ben will receive a notification that Amy has “started sharing” with Ben.
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Amy will start to see Ben’s public posts in her stream.
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Amy will not see any of Ben’s private posts.