Good morning Fediverse.

If you know what I consider the biggest bug in ActivityPub beautifully masked by the Mastodon protocol, you don't have to look at the wishlist item in my authorization feature.

Ensuring followers only reply chains remain visible and be correctly distributed is one of the big challenges to create the Fediverse, I want.

I should also note here that followers only posts are somewhat hacky. Following somebody around is considered stalking in the real world. So a followers only post is somewhat like communicating just with your stalkers. That's messed up as a concept, right?

What one actually would want are groups. This means, I create a group with Alice and Bob, and just Alice, Bob and I get all the messages in this group.

I'm unsure how well one can adapt the above group concept to the Fediverse.

@helge i don't want to talk to my stalkers, i want to talk to *your* stalkers

in all seriousness the "problem" is entirely due to audience being per-post and "reply chains" not being a real thing. you would need to 1) make conversations real/reified, 2) implement inbox forwarding to allow distribution to collections of actors without forcing you to divulge the entire exact contents of that collection of actors.

I think what you want here is Conversation Containers -- which also happen to work exceptionally well for groups and circles/aspects (aka mailing lists) as well as reply controls and conversation completion. It is based on the concept of sending posts to a collection rather than - say, to an actor.

All of my fediverse projects have a permission model which reverses the meaning of "follower" and turns it into something more like passing a note with your phone number and "call me sometime" than the standard Twitter behaviour of declaring that you're now stalking me. You know, kind of like how relationships work in the real world.

@Mike Macgirvin ️ I know you try to explain that simply, however i don't really understand it. Even more simple for low-downs like me?

The simplified version: Not all fediverse software is based on Twitter.