Jess👾
@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange
Spicy take: an advantage of centralized social media platforms is some degree of "Post Soverignty". Basically, OP controls their replies, which can be a really powerful tools to allow individuals to manage harassment and abuse or even just make an announcement and not hold a discussion.
I get that fediverse spec doesn't allow for it (at least in current implementations), but it sure would be nice to be able to unlink replies and only allow certain people/no people to reply.
Sometimes you just don't want to deal with trolls and replyguys and dunks.
Bill Statler@billstatler@forum.statler.ws
Hi @Jess👾 , ReplyGuy here. 😸
So what you're asking for is, if I reply to your post, my reply first goes to you, and then your settings determine whether it gets accepted and forwarded to the other participants in the thread. Do I understand that right?
Because (as @rakoo and @Mike Macgirvin 🖥
️ pointed out), that does exist already. If the Streams repository and Forte are too cutting-edge for you, check out Hubzilla. But you'll need Fediverse software that is designed around the "Post Soverignty" concept. Mastodon is not. As I understand it, this was a conscious design decision: the original poster and the commenters are all equal, and there is no way to retrofit Mastodon with "Post Soverignty".
But it's not a Fediverse spec problem.
