> if you followed the hidden replier and have replies turned on in your home feed.
Only criticism of your reply i have here is id change "and" to "or" ... if you have replies turned on you should be able to see replies even if the author suggested they be hidden. This should be true regardless of if you follow the person replying.
Sounds like we mostly agree except for one small fact... a author can suggest which posts viewers might want to mute.. and viewers can, if they want, automatically take that suggestion, or (like you) decide not to.
As a #SCUBA diver I can confirm this is what they actually sound like!
@kilroy_was_here I was quite happy with brave actually. Reason i switched is for many months nowpop up dialogs were broken so i couldnt save or upload images. I was hoping a future update would fix it, as it is a known problem... but after many months i gave up.
@cyrilpedia Cool cosplay.
Why is there a glove on only one hand though?
Just noticed that, thanks for pointing it out...
Ok then yea this seems like a bit of an idiotic view and he should know better.
@kilroy_was_here I mean there is a certainly unhealth pathology behind someone wanting to control the narrative among people talking about something they want to say... like a huge pathology... and I get looking at that with a bit of disgust... I'm just not sure people like this realize just how ugly it looks, in fact they probably think they are doing good by "curating" a pleasant environment in their replies.
@LouisIngenthron as long as readers have the option to turn it off or ignore it i wouldnt have a problem with it..
like there should be a check box, off by default, in settings that says "hide posts the author suggests you to hide"
@realcaseyrollins hahah, he has actually been pretty reasonable with me. Even if his opinion doesnt seem so reasonable.
@kilroy_was_here Im not sure he deserves that level of hate... I think he comes from a world where he is used to there being a single curtate view of a conversation with the author in control... he isnt used to a distributed world where everyone can pick their view without one dictator.
Yea mastodon has that too, all services would let you delete it for yourself. But others viewing the thread can still see it,a s they should.
@lonelyowl yea and back int he day where there wa a single view of a thread that made sense... but it makes no sense in this new decentralized world. No one person gets to control what can be seen.. you can control who can see what you post, and nothing else. As it should be.
@realcaseyrollins No he was very serious and even engaged in solution finding with gargron int he thread.
I really hope we never reach the point where someone implements a way to silence OTHER people from having an opinion about your post... You have every right to decide what you see, you have no right to decide what other people can see. If i want to see what people have to say about your comment, I should be able to, and you should be powerless to stop me.
@LouisIngenthron HA!
@ottocrat Oh no! you better pay it... you dont want to be under the rest!
@sdgathman Yup, which is why its so damn cheap.. share the load.
Your server has a sort of "virtual" account for the foreign user who made the post... its their "federated" account but its the cache your local server has of it... but you can moderate it like a local account,a nd go in and delete posts or whatever you want..
When you do this your basically just making it so people with accounts on your server will never see the reply, but as i said even if you do this someone from another server looking at your thread will still see the reply because they federate with the other server too and fetched it from that server not yours.
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