Here is a poll about expected behaviours on Mastodon:
Should original toots that begin with a @ (mention) be treated similar to an original toot (regardless of @) (current behaviour) or similar to a reply to another toot (e.g. not shown to your followers who do not also follow the person you're @'ing) (Twitter behaviour)
Here is my case for changing current behaviour:
People on Twitter usually prepend their @ with a dot to sic their followers on someone. Current behaviour is like that but like if the dot was invisible.
Also it's annoying to get interactions on a toot from people who don't follow the person I'm @'ing, even if my toot is not DM-worthy and I wouldn't mind replies from those who follow both of us
@gargron
I did the current behavior intentionally because it was an issue many on the local timeline were following... could have been more subtle and dm'd the individual I originally @'d and asked them to update the local, but didn't think of that in the moment...
