@Friendica Support hello, may i pls get some help on this query about #Circles ?
i have sub-divided my list of follows & followers into several Circles. one of these is for all my followed #newsbots. i have found to my chagrin that a basic design feature of #Friendica is working against me here. atm, if i read a particular newsbot's post whilst in my "Bot" circle, then decide to quote-boost / quote-share it, with some pertinent commentary by me, it's a complete waste of time... the default Friendica permissions / visibility feature makes my resultant post "Locked", ie visible only to members of this circle, ie, a heap of bots. no actual human will ever see it.
[how] can i avoid this? how can i manually allow any/all posts / replies / boosts / shares that i do from this circle, be visible across all the fediverse?
when circles comprise actual human accounts, this baked-in Friendica privacy concept makes sense. it is however actively unhelpful, indeed plain obstructive, for the specific case of a bot circle.
thx.
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Michael 🇺🇦
in reply to Droppie [opensoc] • • •Ji Fu (Domestic Terrorist)
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in reply to Ji Fu (Domestic Terrorist) • • •Droppie [opensoc]
in reply to Michael 🇺🇦 • • •@Michael 🇺🇦 oh Michael, i feel so stupid! I did already look there before posting, but somehow entirely failed to notice i could manually change it. i've now done a test
friendica.opensocial.space/dis…
& it seems to have worked [the icon is now the globe, not the padlock], so... yay!
thank you, but i apologise for wasting your time 🥺
@Michael 🇺🇦 oh Michael, i feel so stupid! I did already look there before posting, but somehow entirely failed to notice i could manually change it. i've now done a test
friendica.opensocial.space/dis…
& it seems to have worked [the icon is now the globe, not the padlock], so... yay!
thank you, but i apologise for wasting your time 🥺
Droppie [opensoc]
2025-12-11 20:47:31
Ji Fu (Domestic Terrorist)
in reply to Droppie [opensoc] • • •Michael 🇺🇦
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in reply to Michael 🇺🇦 • • •As you asked than, before changing the nomen clature @Michael 🇺🇦, using it now it seems that that was actually a good choice.
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@Ji Fu (Domestic Terrorist)