@KS If you're looking for other quick and dirty new features you can hack in, it should actually be fairly trivial to make a privacy setting that posts only to the local timeline.
Just make it network the local-only toots as if they are using the already-existing "hidden" setting, using the new privacy setting internally to make it show up on the local timeline while not showing up on other instances' public timelines, but allowing them to be retooted to personal timelines.
@JTE Not as simple as that because remote users can take the URL of the post and "search" for it on their instance, bring it up and reply to it. Also if anyone replies without setting local-only the local-only post gets sent out too
@KS Oh sorry, I'm using the wrong terminology. I meant "unlisted". As opposed to direct messages and the like, yeah. I figured it would be closer.
@JTE Unlisted is sent out to everyone following you like a normal post, it's just kept off the public and local timelines so nobody can find it *that* way.
@KS Exactly. And the point of making "local timeline only" posts would be to do that, but also have it show up on the local timeline, only keeping it out of the federated timeline, right?
@KS I mean, I suppose it's fair enough if everyone here just follows everyone else here. 🤷🏼 That won't be a pain in the butt at all.
@KS Those are both symptoms shared with the "hidden" setting to begin with, aren't they?