Update documentation with Home feed visibility for replies #1400
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I couldn't find any documentation of under what condition my replies are shown in my followers' Home feeds and I noticed a lot of other people are confused about this as well (cf this post & its replies), so here's a documentation update that explains how it works.
The 3 specific things that I found the most confusing were:
@mention
is not considered a reply (unlike how it works on Twitter)cc @ClearlyClaire who explained this to me on Mastodon. Please let me know if I got any of this wrong, or if you think it would be better documented somewhere else.