@silverpill @icedquinn @miscbrains @adiz @m0xEE

> Yes, you just copy followers collection from the parent post to your reply.

I mean, you've got to enforce that this person has the authority to do that, at minimum.

> The author of top level post is responsible for delivering activities,

This seems like it could be abused if threads get too long.

> https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/171b/fep-171b.md

This is reasonable. Mitra implements this already?

> no one gets FOMO from looking at broken threads.

Ha, I don't think it's FOMO so much as people tending not to quote as compulsively as I do, so:

:alexjonesbrain: You know what we need? An entire truck full of shellfish.
:dalecooper: [scope changes to followers-only] Why?
:alexjonesbrain: [post unavailable]
:dalecooper: My god, that's brilliant!

It's annoying for the same reason as a person talking loudly on a cell phone is annoying: you don't even care about the conversation, it's just irritating to only hear half.

At any rate, I think email and IRC solve the private conversation just fine already. I used Masto when I first arrived on fedi, I've used Soapbox, and just seeing the top-level posts is boring. They're like a million times more likely to be performative. But scrolling down, I see some heated discussion of some nerd shit, I click and there's some really interesting discussion going on. I don't like turning that stuff opaque because I don't have interest in the stuff that's left over once the reply-chains become opaque.