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jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:
We need reply controls in mainline masto like yesterday. Of course technically its always possible for people on a malicious instance to evade them, but that is not a counterargument to having them work on the overwhelming majority of well behaved instances where the people we actually talk to are.
We already have the mechanism in mainline masto: reply collection enumeration - if person on instance A receives a malicious reply from person on instance B that is propagated to instance C, when instance C displays the thread, it refreshes the replies collection, sees a tombstone for the malicious reply, and does not display it in the thread.
We already have notification filters and a whole ui built for that. Reply controls could just be another tab on the same menu with the same controls.
You can't stop people from posting whatever, but you should be able to control whether someone uses your posts as a platform to harass you and the people around you.