@neil It's not a centralised protocol, though. You'd be reliant on all implementations to respect the "replies disabled" semaphore. (Like the laughable Mickey$oft "recall" extension to e-mail which only their products understand or honour.) The most you can enforce reliably is to refuse to accept the replies in your own client.
@realcainmosni Sure! A lot of people are on Mastodon instances that they don't run though, so I think it would have some value, even if, as you correctly say, it wouldn't be supported by everyone.
@neil The trouble with that is there would be instances which either didn't understand or implement the semaphore where the replies would be seen, and to others you might be made to look the arsehole because there's an asymmetric presentation of the thread.
I'm not arguing against the principle. Only the practicality in a distributed network. I'm put in mind of certain legislators who have said things similar to "I don't care about the laws of physics, I care about the law of the land."
I'm not arguing against the principle. Only the practicality in a distributed network.
Is it fundamentally different to existing visibility settings?
