Apologies, cleary visibility: 'private' in masto (Node.js Mastodon client) doesn’t mean private.
🤷♂️
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So, today I learned that if you set `visibility: ‘private’` via the API in a post you’re making on Mastodon, the post is public.
If you want it to be “private”* (as in a direct message) you have to set `visibility: ‘direct’`
`conclusion: ‘I love it’`
* It’s still not private because it is not end-to-end encrypted.
@aral The visibility: private ; is presented (on the web interface) as "reserved to your followers".
While public is : pushed to the public timeline of your instance.
@aral Thanks for the tips ;)
@aral the same thing happens with mastodon.py 
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