Mastodon Glitch Edition

Local-only toots

glitch-soc adds a feature called “local-only” or “non-federated” toots. Toots marked as such do not automatically federate to other instances, making them ideal for example for local server announcements and meta-discussion.

Compose UI

A toot is marked as local-only using a dropdown in the compose UI:

compose

Additionally, this can be done by appending the eye (:eye:) emoji at the very end of the toot.

In the timeline, it then looks like this:

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