@tokyo_0 Facebook used to allow something like that - visibility and comments only for "Friends of Friends". It was my preferred option. It led to the most civil and interesting conversations - it was like being at a dinner party with enough new people but not complete strangers.
@tokyo_0 I think you rightly said that it is going to be quite difficult to prevent linking to posts which is what "quote posting" is. Hyperlinks are one of the fundamental building blocks of the web. I really don't have any good ideas but I will say that Gargron - who only builds Mastodon and not the whole fediverse - can't prevent quote posting any more than they can prevents folks linking out to articles.
Btw threads recently said that they will allow their users to block quote posting
@tokyo_0 That indeed seems to be a gap. But block should be working on your instance. Why is your instance showing you posts from this user when you have blocked them? That is the gap in my opinion. Even if they at mention you, you should not see them on your timeline.
@tokyo_0 I have leaned on paid services here in 🇳🇱. Property management services that came with the rentals are a good way to navigate through a lot of house & living.
@bytor I did not sign the #fedipact because I am on my own family & friends instance and I want the choice to use my fediverse identity to talk to threads.
However I recognize that very large instances harm the distributed nature of the fediverse. It becomes centralized for all practical purposes.
Just off the top of my head, no instance / admin should control the experience of more than 1% of people of fediverse.
@tokyo_0 No other social media does so natively. Twitter doesn’t even have an API but I think they did plan to have this feature in their premium tier. Threads wouldn’t delete the posts but is planning to make them private after some time. BlueSky has an API so there are some 3rd party services that do so and of course you can write your own. But I like it just being an option here on Mastodon.
@tokyo_0 One way is to lobby your own government and public institutions to be in the fediverse. Preferably not via threads. Europe is doing so, and I saw a petition going around for Canadian government too. Govts are the only heavy weights that can stand up to tech giants.
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