When will Fedi/Mastodon have the ability to remove asshole replies?
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replies should be ranked. treat hashtags like a subreddit and let us sort them. we don't need anything else from lemmy etc.
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@BeAware
I have a suggestion: accept free speech and difference of opinion.
You are not "platforming" them because they're replying to you, they're platforming themselves.
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@BeAware
I have a suggestion: accept free speech and difference of opinion.
You are not "platforming" them because they're replying to you, they're platforming themselves.
In this world, each is responsible only to himself.@amerika my website is not your free speech platform. You have your own website for that. I should be able to choose what's on my website.
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@BeAware It'll never have that cause that's impossible to enforce across all implementations -
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@BeAware I would very much like better comment controls. -
replies should be ranked. treat hashtags like a subreddit and let us sort them. we don't need anything else from lemmy etc.
@wjmaggos yes! AND I should be able to remove them. My post is originated from MY website after all, I should have that control.
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@BeAware It'll never have that cause that's impossible to enforce across all implementations
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@BeAware @evan Yeah but implementations can still ignore such an activity [either on purpose or because it's unsupported by said implementations], and also there's just the general nature of the network which means the activity may never reach some servers. But if you really just care about Mastodon having that and nothing more than I guess you'll be happy.
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@BeAware @evan Yeah but implementations can still ignore such an activity [either on purpose or because it's unsupported by said implementations], and also there's just the general nature of the network which means the activity may never reach some servers. But if you really just care about Mastodon having that and nothing more than I guess you'll be happy.
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@BeAware Sure. Here's the rough idea: every object in ActivityPub world has a `replies` collection. This is a list of the replies to the object. It's usually (but not strictly necessarily!) managed by the same server as the original object.
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@BeAware Sure. Here's the rough idea: every object in ActivityPub world has a `replies` collection. This is a list of the replies to the object. It's usually (but not strictly necessarily!) managed by the same server as the original object.
@evan thanks for the reply!
I very much look forward to when this would be implemented somewhere.
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@BeAware Sure. Here's the rough idea: every object in ActivityPub world has a `replies` collection. This is a list of the replies to the object. It's usually (but not strictly necessarily!) managed by the same server as the original object.
@BeAware When someone replies to an object (note, image, video, whatever), they do that by attaching an `inReplyTo` property to the reply. The reply object (usually) gets delivered to the creator of the original object, and their server (usually) adds the reply object to the `replies` property of the original object.
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@BeAware When someone replies to an object (note, image, video, whatever), they do that by attaching an `inReplyTo` property to the reply. The reply object (usually) gets delivered to the creator of the original object, and their server (usually) adds the reply object to the `replies` property of the original object.
@BeAware So, at least in principal, a server could give the original author read-write access to the `replies` collection, and when the original author blocks someone, or chooses "hide this comment", or whatever, the bad reply gets removed from the collection.
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@BeAware So, at least in principal, a server could give the original author read-write access to the `replies` collection, and when the original author blocks someone, or chooses "hide this comment", or whatever, the bad reply gets removed from the collection.
@evan sounds like a great idea!
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@BeAware So, at least in principal, a server could give the original author read-write access to the `replies` collection, and when the original author blocks someone, or chooses "hide this comment", or whatever, the bad reply gets removed from the collection.
@BeAware There are two problems with this solution.
First, our servers don't allow that right now. It would be nice if they did, but I don't think there are any that do.
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@BeAware There are two problems with this solution.
First, our servers don't allow that right now. It would be nice if they did, but I don't think there are any that do.
Second, many servers don't even use the `replies` collection to show replies. Instead, they use a search of the local database on the server to see if there are any objects with an `inReplyTo` property that matches the original object. So, even if the original author removed the object from the `replies` collection, it would still be visible to others.
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Second, many servers don't even use the `replies` collection to show replies. Instead, they use a search of the local database on the server to see if there are any objects with an `inReplyTo` property that matches the original object. So, even if the original author removed the object from the `replies` collection, it would still be visible to others.
@BeAware There's a third problem, which is that if the original author is *definitely* not going to add the reply to the `replies` collection, it would be nice for others to know, so they don't keep sending the same reply over and over.
The easy way to do this is to have a property that defines who is allowed to reply, like `repliesWelcomeFrom` or something. We don't have that right now, even though it's pretty widely requested.