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@lxo@gnusocial.net I see reply controls more as a way to control how one's post appears canonically to other people, since I consider the comment/reply section to be an important part of the post. It's just a convenient way to show which responses you yourself approve of. A comment section full of toxicity and unconstructive responses would be kinda embarrassing to show to other people, don't you think? :sagume_think:

I disagree that this would prevent people from responding. They can still do so; they just have to accept that it will be separate from the post and I will not platform it. In traditional webpages that'd mean the response will be a simple link, and the linkback will not be shown by the OP. In microblogs that'd mean a quote post which will not be shown in the original post's list of quotes (if the software implements that). Freedom is still preserved in both.