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Facebook question:
I have different types of 'friends' on Facebook, such as "Family", "Rationalists", "English-speaking", etc. Different materials I post are interesting for different groups. There is an option to select visibility of my posts, but that seems not exactly what I want.
What I'd like is to make my posts so that they are available to everyone, including people I don't know (e.g. if anyone clicks on my name, they will see everything I ever posted), but I don't want all my posts to appear automatically on all of my 'friends' home pages, if they follow me. In other words, I don't want to spam my 'friends'' pages with stuff they are unlikely to read, yet I want anyone to be able to read each of my posts if they wish so.
Is there an option "don't push this automatically to all people, but let them see it if they click on a permalink"?
The way Facebook works, you decide what's available, but each of your friends has to individually decide how much they want to see of you.
The problem is exactly the "how much they want to see of you" part, namely that there is only the one undifferentiated "you" instead of "your rationality posts", "your family photos", "your posts with kitten videos". I don't want to bother my family with rationality posts, and don't want to bother my LW friends with Slovak posts, but as long as I don't want to limit it all to 'friends of my friends' I don't have a choice.
Technically, the solution would be to create multiple accounts for mutliple aspects of my life, and have different sets of 'friends' for each. But this is against Facebook TOS, and is also technically inconvenient.
Actually, maybe I could use the "Pages" feature for this... That allows people to post under multiple identities, so each of them can have different followers. But officially, "Pages are for businesses, brands and organizations". Not sure if "Viliam's comments on politics in Slovakia" qualitfies as any of that.
What you seem to be already doing, which is to manually select what group will see each post, seems to be good enough for your purposes. Anyone who actively wants to see more of you can simply go to your profile and see everything.