Fedi.Tips @FediTips@social.growyourown.services
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- Users not being able to control who can reply to their posts

The Fediverse having thousands of independent servers is one of its greatest strengths (fedi.tips/why-is-the-fediverse) but also causes whack-a-mole problems when trying to block hate.

If users could pre-emptively restrict who can reply to their post, e.g. followers-only, this would prevent hatemongers from random unblocked servers posting nasty replies.

Github users can vote for this at github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i

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Julian Fietkau @julian@fietkau.social
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@FediTips Re: reply controls.

GoToSocial came up with a way (docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/) to do this. It doesn't “solve” malicious servers, but it lets benevolent servers honor each other's inhabitants' wishes.

I'm drafting a “Fediverse Enhancement Proposal” document to make it easier for other projects to join GTS. It's progressing, but I have day job stuff etc. It might help to add a few collaborators.

Anyone comfortable w/ technical specs similar to this fediverse.codeberg.page/fep/fe & want to help?

Interaction Controls - GoToSocial Documentation

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