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Stefan Bohacek Basically, at least on Mastodon, you can create a post that's visible to "mentioned people only", tag it with a "MutualsOnly" hashtag, and not mention anyone, and only you would see it.
Here on Hubzilla, I explicitly have the option to make posts only visible to myself. And that means that even people looking through my posts won't be able to see it, login recognised by OpenWebAuth or not.
"Mutuals only" is possible here, too. I can manually select whom to send a post to. This could be single connections which would amount to a DM with no mention. But it could also be a privacy group.
So I could create an additional privacy group with all my connections in it, at least those posting to whom makes sense, i.e. excluding groups, forums, Lemmy communities, blogs, RSS/Atom feeds etc. And then I could restrict a new post to this privacy group. Again, since this post would not be public, strictly speaking, it would not appear on my wall for all channel visitors to see.
Alternatively, I could set my whole channel to Private. Then none of my posts would be public unless I explicitly made them public. All of them would only be visible to my connections by default.
There are downsides to this, though. First of all, Hubzilla assumes all connections to be either following-only or mutual unless a channel is in a kind of "soapbox mode" that doesn't require new following connections to be manually confirmed. Mastodon's Twitter-esque distinction between "follower" and "followed" does not exist here. This was inherited from Friendica, and Friendica, in turn, mimics Facebook which doesn't have one-sided connections either.
Now, Hubzilla has problems figuring out and displaying whether an ActivityPub connection is following-only or mutual. In practice, however, this isn't a problem: If someone doesn't follow me back, they won't receive that post anyway.
The other downside is that none of the ActivityPub-based projects understand permissions like Hubzilla and (streams) do. Not even Friendica does. So connections via "non-nomadic" protocols understand posts with restricted permissions as DMs that go out to a whole lot of connections. If they don't have a concept of DMs with more than two participants, this makes meaningful discussions impossible.
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