Scott Feeney @graue@social.coop
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In light of convos about Mastodon's reply-guy problem, here's your periodic reminder that code was written in **2022** to make blocking someone hide their reply to your post, but still hasn't been shipped.

This simple fix to make toxic replies less harmful has now been ignored by the Mastodon team for 40% of Mastodon's existence.

github.com/mastodon/mastodon/p

This is about the server not returning known subthreads started by people blocked by the post's author, not the viewer. e.g., if we have A → B → C → D → E, where a → b means “b replies to a”, a...

Hide subthreads by blocked users when looking at a post's descendants by ClearlyClaire · Pull Request #18468 · mastodon/mastodon

This is about the server not returning known subthreads started by people blocked by the post's author, not the viewer. e.g., if we have A → B → C → D → E, where a → b means “b replies to a”, a...

github.com · GitHub

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