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Written by Dave Winer ☕️ on 2025-01-09 at 17:41

a little fix that would make social web a lot more useful and less hate-filled and abusive...

make replies visible only to the person being replied to.

if they feel the reply should be public, they can RT it.

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Written by Evan Prodromou on 2025-01-09 at 17:42

@davew that's interesting!

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Written by James M. on 2025-01-09 at 19:38

@evan @davew this is similar to one approach to support reply controls: Every response to a post goes first to the OP's device (or trusted server), which can then apply any configured reply controls, and then forward it to the original post's recipient list (or a subset) as appropriate. This also has the advantage that a replier can remain anonymous to other recipients, while not anonymous to the OP, which I think would help discourage anonymous abuse. I've implemented this in a social media system I wrote.

The OP's device could even avoid sending these replies to people blocked by the replier, by using private set intersection (PSI). Updatable PSI would make this efficient.

I think reply controls would go a long way towards attracting people to the fediverse who face a lot of abuse online.

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Written by Nogweii on 2025-01-09 at 17:53

@davew I think that'll help, but not that much. Many folks that want to inflict harm, want to inflict it on that person in particular. It's not about being performative, for others to see.

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