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This is just my periodic toot into the void that I believe that one of the single biggest, most useful improvements that Mastodon could make is to implement reply controls and allow people to either turn them off completely, allow for follower-only replies and/or "allowed repliers" lists, and mute individual threads. And make those limits as rock-solid as possible.

Far from being the only thing necessary, I sincerely believe that this kind of user-level control would cut down the average user's reply-guy problem significantly.

GoToSocial does it, Akkoma sort of does it, and I believe Pleroma also does it. It's obviously not impossible or even that hard to implement.

Let the users determine their own levels of desired engagement. This "all or nothing" thing we have now is really frustrating.

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