Dear OPW Lazyweb
5/4 '16
What's the difference in OPW between being friends with someone, following someone, and giving someone keys?
I have the feeling some folks have deemed me a friend (which I think is the same thing as following me) in OPW but haven't given me keys, which means I still can't read their locked posts.
Do I have that right?
Thxbye.
I have the feeling some folks have deemed me a friend (which I think is the same thing as following me) in OPW but haven't given me keys, which means I still can't read their locked posts.
Do I have that right?
Thxbye.
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This is good because now I can see exactly what the deal was. I went to your profile, and saw that I follow you, and two buttons were fully-colored for different filters (I only have 3) but "Friends" was grayed out. So that shows me the actual answer to your questions, which is yes, Person A can follow Person B, and give Person B keys to filters 1, 2 and 3, then follow Person C and give them a key to filter 1 and 3 but not 2, and so on.
So, in my case, you could read some but not all of my posts, but I changed it.
I have the feeling Houser has me in a similar bucket.
Following someone, or "following someone back," gives them... exactly jack shit.
The only way anybody gets to see a locked post is if you give them the corresponding key.
And "friend" ain't nothin' but a key that exists to start with, as a convenience.
However, in an attempt to cut down on the confusion (and the radio silence and sadness) that all this awesome privacy might otherwise generate, when you follow someone, you are asked if you also want to give them some keys.
However, if someone follows *you*, there's less "glue" to help you through the interaction. You do get a notification. But you don't get a special prompt to consider following them back or giving them any keys.
That is something I should think about changing, because all this privacy is only helpful if it fosters rather than killing conversation in a reasonably frictionless manner.
However I would never change it so that you *automatically* follow them back or given them any keys, because that would not be the safe space I promised.
Does that make sense? This is that rare moment where I get to hear how someone is honestly reacting to the system we built.
I think my confusion (and perhaps that of others?) is that we all still have LJ on the brain, so when we see the word "friend" we think of it in LJ terms and not so much in OPW terms.
Is there an OPW Announcements account that everyone sees? If so, it might be a good idea to post a refresher for folks, because I'm sure I can't be the only one who has made this mistake.