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.

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One thing that I don't like about Mastodon is that I can't edit the replies to my post. So, if someone replies to something I said with a non sequi...

@freemo This is implemented in Twitter and it's actually a really nice feature. You could "hide" replies to your own posts. It would then have a little notification to readers saying "some replies have been hidden by the thread poster" and you could click in to see those hidden posts.

It provided what the OP you're quoting wants with reasonable balance for others. And, when you looked at which posts someone chose to hide, it was very revealing about who they are.

I wouldn't mind this feature making its way to Mastodon at all.

@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"

@freemo @LouisIngenthron I disagree. There should only be the ability to mute the person, the thread and perhaps posts in the thread from certain people for yourself. You can curate the timeline for yourself but leave other people to curate their own timelines. Personally, I have just gotten good at ignoring posts I'm not interested in or have nothing further to contribute to and that fills the gap for me. We can mute threads, but I have wondered if it would be useful to be able to mute branches of a thread. Maybe you are still interested in your thread but not one branch of it as people have veered off the original topic. That could be useful. I don't think it is useful to delete or mute posts for other people and it would be better if we veered away from this curation mindset. Especially if we value decentralisation. We already have enough tools here that encourage division and closing ourselves off from others.
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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.

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@freemo @LouisIngenthron I still worry about the precedent that it sets. I don't think that it is necessary to have a suggestion from the person that started the thread. But it does seem a lot of people come over and expect this curation mindset, to have someone else to do it for them.
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