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   dansup (dansup@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 20-Feb-2026 07:29:12 JST dansup

   RE: https://mastodon.social/@dansup/116094075872982176

   When you share a new blog post to your blog, you are able to remove comments.

   The same should be possible here, and no, I don't mean delete the local/remote comment/reply, I mean detach it from the conversation thread.

   I've been called a fascist for wanting this, but it's not that different than how a blog works lol

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     dansup (dansup@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 20-Feb-2026 07:32:20 JST dansup

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     • Sashin

     @sashin Correct, it should be removed from the thread and treated as a "viewable by permalink or profile feed" only

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     Sashin (sashin@veganism.social)'s status on Friday, 20-Feb-2026 07:32:22 JST Sashin

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     @dansup Do you mean, other people shouldn't see it either? Not just the poster?

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     Sam Clemente (countablenewt@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 20-Feb-2026 07:40:32 JST Sam Clemente

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     @dansup to me this feels like a very logical hierarchy of control:

     The fediverse at large moderates the platform

     Admins moderate the servers

     Posters moderate their posts

     If you disagree with those moderation decisions, you mute/report/block/defederate

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     Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 (pojntfx@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 20-Feb-2026 07:40:34 JST Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅

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     @dansup Wouldn't that essentially be a way to shut down any unwanted criticism of your post and isn't this what moderation is for?

     dansup repeated this.
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     dansup (dansup@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 20-Feb-2026 07:42:24 JST dansup

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     • Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅

     @pojntfx Sure, but the inverse in allowing anyone to reply to your posts is more dangerous and has been one of the major turn offs of the fediverse, since forever.

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     Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 (pojntfx@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 20-Feb-2026 07:45:31 JST Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅

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     @dansup Idk. "Anyone can quote and reply to an opinion I post to the internet" feels like a core characteristic of ... the internet to me.

     I'd expect a post to be removable by a neutral (to whatever conversation is going on not in general) instance moderator if it's against instance policies, adding one side of an argument to that seems like a recipe for desaster ...

     Maybe it's just "moderation scoped to one's own replies though" and I'm just framing it incorrectly to myself?

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     normy foxyoreos (foxyoreos@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 20-Feb-2026 08:55:37 JST normy foxyoreos

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     @dansup Exactly this!

     I can detach a quote post on Mastodon today. I should also be able to detach a reply.

     It doesn't need to be deleting from anyone else's server, but why am I being forced to platform every single reply on my pages? Just unlinking the reply would be great.