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From Mark Zuckerberg ( @ @zuck@threads.net ): "Also, a lot of people asked to only allow quotes and replies from their followers. You can now customize this per post to control who chimes in on your posts."

2025-03-20 21:50:57

reiver@mastodon.social

This has been asked for on the (broader) Fediverse for a long time, too.

(Longer than Threads has existed.)

Although, in practice, it is impossible to prevent it. Someone can take a screenshot of your post and comment on it — thus doing an ad hoc DIY quote-post.

RE: https://www.threads.net/@zuck/post/DHbavhJvRIn

#DeSo #Fediverse #FediverseUX #FediUX

2025-03-20 22:24:19

Mike Macgirvin ?️

mikedev@fediversity.site

I've been trying to explain this to the Mastodon folks, but they still insist that they are creating a "permission" where only those you allow can talk behind your back. This is un-enforceable so I will continue to call it a bullshit feature that doesn't work and can never be made to work.

2025-03-20 22:42:15

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

@@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman: I've been able to do this since I first entered the Fediverse. Hubzilla gives you that control.

And I bet Friendica, streams and Forte too.

2025-03-21 21:30:33

Jupiter Rowland

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

@Hans van Zijst @@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman: The Comment Control app on (streams) and Forte lets you

disallow comments on a specific post
limit comments on a specific post to only your approved connections
allow comments on a specific post only until a certain date and time in the future

In addition, even without that app, you can generally limit commenting permissions to

everyone in the Fediverse
only your approved connections
only you yourself plus connections whom you specifically give that permission by connection settings/permission role (for those who don't know Hubzilla and its descendants, this means that you can allow some of your mutual followers/followed to reply to you and disallow it for all your other mutual followers/followed while those who follow you without you following them back are not allowed to reply)

You can define a number of days for which people can comment on your posts after sending them.

And you still have Hubzilla's option to "moderate" comments that are, technically speaking, not allowed. (This means that you and only you see them at first. You have two buttons under them. One is for accepting them. In this case, you officially add them to the conversation, and your Friendica, Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte connections will fetch it from your channel. The other one is for rejecting them which also deletes them.)

I don't think that any of this has any influence on whether someone can quote-post ("share") any of your posts or comments. That is, quote-posts are only allowed in public threads anyway. And if there was a permission for quote-posting, it would be defined by the start post for the whole thread because individual comments cannot have individual permissions.

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