@Friendica Support hello, may i pls get some help on this query about #Circles ?

i have sub-divided my list of follows & followers into several Circles. one of these is for all my followed #newsbots. i have found to my chagrin that a basic design feature of #Friendica is working against me here. atm, if i read a particular newsbot's post whilst in my "Bot" circle, then decide to quote-boost / quote-share it, with some pertinent commentary by me, it's a complete waste of time... the default Friendica permissions / visibility feature makes my resultant post "Locked", ie visible only to members of this circle, ie, a heap of bots. no actual human will ever see it.

[how] can i avoid this? how can i manually allow any/all posts / replies / boosts / shares that i do from this circle, be visible across all the fediverse?

when circles comprise actual human accounts, this baked-in Friendica privacy concept makes sense. it is however actively unhelpful, indeed plain obstructive, for the specific case of a bot circle.

thx.

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@Friendica Support @support@forum.friendi.ca

Apologies for posting about this again, but I didn't see any replies and was hoping someone might have an idea.

I have set up a number of different Circles, and for the most part, they are working well.

However, when setting up and editing Circles, not all my contacts appear as options to add to the Circle.

Why is this, and is there a work-around or way to fix it?

Thank you!

#friendicahelp #circles