Brion Vibber :blobcatcoffee:@thomasfuchs in a system that was concentrating on reducing conflict, this wouldn't happen -- because the lack of seeing each others' replies *creates* conflict as multiple people post the same "hot takes" over and over. you'd instead have replies for a post managed by a the server of the person who posted the parent post, so that moderators could actually moderate discussions
none of that's in mastodon, where reply trees are applied via some activitypub reply chain at a separate level
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