I like posting with visibility set to Unlisted when I feel like thinking out loud.
As I understand it, it makes my post only show up when you're viewing my profile, and it doesn't show up in your timelines.(I boosted it though, wanted to share)
Looks like I'm wrong: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/posting/#privacy
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