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2025-10-09 08:21:24

helge@mymath.rocks

Good morning Fediverse.

Good news! guide now talks about followers only posts. If you are in the set of "Some applications create replies to followers-only posts addressed to the replier's followers collection", please fix it.

Also there is talk about followers only posts being a vector of abuse. Whenever, I read that, I just assume that it is caused by the above mentioned implementation behavior. Thus obviously caused by a bad implementation.

2025-10-09 12:01:48

Jupiter Rowland

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

@Helge

Good news! guide now talks about followers only posts. If you are in the set of "Some applications create replies to followers-only posts addressed to the replier's followers collection", please fix it.

This. In fact, Fediverse server software that behaves correctly has been around since long before Mastodon was made.

In fact, replies should never go to whoever is replied to unless it's the conversation starter. Replies should always go to the conversation starter and from there to all participants in the conversation, and they should do so without having to visually mention all participants. Also, conversations should be shown as a whole by default always and everywhere and not as single-message piecemeal with no context.

And in an ideal Fediverse, this should go hand in hand with only the members of the followers collection of the top-level post author being permitted to see a) the top-level post, b) any comments on the top-level post and c) any replies to comments in the first place. This would make sure that nobody who isn't intended as part of the audience will ever be able to see this content, also by making it technically impossible to repost/boost/repeat/share/otherwise forward anything in the conversation. But hardly anything in the Fediverse has the all-encompassing permissions system that's required to achieve this.

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #AP-Next #Conversations #Permissions #FollowersOnly