Blocking someone should remove their replies from your posts, this is the type of safety features we need in the Fediverse!
RE: https://mastodon.social/@dansup/116094075872982176
When you share a new blog post to your blog, you are able to remove comments.
The same should be possible here, and no, I don't mean delete the local/remote comment/reply, I mean detach it from the conversation thread.
I've been called a fascist for wanting this, but it's not that different than how a blog works lol
@dansup AP servers have moderators, blogs don't. AP is (among other uses) used for discussing things between people, blogs aren't. AP has unlimited post hierarchy, on blogs all comments are (usually) directly replying to OP. I think it's a false analogy.
@dansup Exactly this!
I can detach a quote post on Mastodon today. I should also be able to detach a reply.
It doesn't need to be deleting from anyone else's server, but why am I being forced to platform every single reply on my pages? Just unlinking the reply would be great.
@dansup Wouldn't that essentially be a way to shut down any unwanted criticism of your post and isn't this what moderation is for?
@pojntfx Sure, but the inverse in allowing anyone to reply to your posts is more dangerous and has been one of the major turn offs of the fediverse, since forever.
Coming in without the context of the threads, this got me thinking on how Hacker News does it. Where people can downvote comments + subthread until they disappear from the public view, but in the account settings there's a 'showdead' flag that allows one to still view those (and visually these comments are greyed out in the UI).
Github and Discourse also hide flagged content from view, but you can still click into it if you want to.
@dansup Idk. "Anyone can quote and reply to an opinion I post to the internet" feels like a core characteristic of ... the internet to me.
I'd expect a post to be removable by a neutral (to whatever conversation is going on not in general) instance moderator if it's against instance policies, adding one side of an argument to that seems like a recipe for desaster ...
Maybe it's just "moderation scoped to one's own replies though" and I'm just framing it incorrectly to myself?
@dansup to me this feels like a very logical hierarchy of control:
The fediverse at large moderates the platform
Admins moderate the servers
Posters moderate their posts
If you disagree with those moderation decisions, you mute/report/block/defederate/migrate
