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>About "reply gating"
>This, or something similar, has been a standard feature at least on Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte from the get-go, i.e. from their respective creation on.

I've written extensively about this before. Features like this simply cannot work in a federated network like ActivityPub broadly. Your instance might hide replies/comments to your posts to you and other instances running the same software, but it is visible to everyone else. So at best it creates a false sense of security/control.

The only way to implement it properly is by making the OP instance/user the sole authority of federating those posts, which requires a large paradigm shift in how federation works. FEP-171b: Conversation Containers is one such way and it is effectively broken for every other implementation beyond those listed. Hubzilla implements it. So you either limit your interactions to 4 fedi server implementations that most people don't use, or it doesn't work as expected.

Give my blog post about it a read if you are interested in how these settings can be disregarded.