Sharing
Who sees a post
Every post is private, for friends, or public. You choose for each post, and you can change your mind in any direction.
This describes ohm as it is planned. The workspace in the browser is not open yet. What is built
The three choices
| Who can read it | Where it is published | |
|---|---|---|
| Private | Only you | Nowhere |
| Friends | The people you follow who follow you back | Nowhere outside ohm |
| Public | Everyone | Your own account on the open network, and your website |
A new post is private. A post that comes in from a folder is private unless its file says otherwise.
Changing it only marks the post
Setting a post to friends or public does not share it. It marks the post, and the status line shows it as waiting. It reaches other people when you press Publish and say yes. Publish
Friends
A friend is someone you follow who follows you back. There is no separate request to approve: following back is the approval. Friends
Making a post less visible
You can move a public post back to friends or private, and a friends post back to private. At the next Publish it is removed from where it was.
That is not a recall. Copies of a public post that other services made stay where they are, and a friend who already read a post has read it.
What private means
Private means private from other people. Two things still read a private post.
- ohm. Your workspace holds every post, so ohm can read it. ohm shows your private posts to nobody and does not use them to match you with other people.
- Your agent, if you connect one, and therefore the company that runs the model it uses.