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I'm not clear on the intent behind that post...
"Unlisted is just like Public, except it does not show up on federated or local timelines or hash tag searches or text searches."
But doesn't that make all the difference? Unless you happen to have lots of lots of followers, the Unlisted status would generally keep people from seeing your post, wouldn't it?
It would be like saying, Not hitting the Post button is same as hitting the Post button, except that people won't see your posts.