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   Marcus Hutchins :verified: (malwaretech@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 17-Dec-2023 02:03:02 JST Marcus Hutchins :verified:

   Why doesn't Mastodon / ActivityPub have an equivalent of other platform's abilities for a post author to hide certain replies for everyone, or disable replies entirely? Someone on another platform brought this up and actually I'm curious

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     Renaud Chaput (renchap@oisaur.com)'s status on Sunday, 17-Dec-2023 02:03:01 JST Renaud Chaput

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     @malwaretech because this is hard to do in a federated protocol. Claire started a FEP on this tomic but it went nowhere due to the complexity (and bad decisions in the current implementation).
     The basic idea is that you ask the OP account for a signed token allowing your reply, which can be checked by all other instances.
     We want a similar thing for quote posts.
     Main issue here is lack of resources, as usual 😞 but on my roadmap for 2024

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     Renaud Chaput (renchap@oisaur.com)'s status on Sunday, 17-Dec-2023 02:05:58 JST Renaud Chaput

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     @malwaretech here is the FEP if you want to have a deeper look, and reae more about the roadblocks in the replies: https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/fep-5624-per-object-reply-control-policies/2723

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