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Evan Prodromou

@fraying @kissane

The people who work on the ActivityPub specs are humans and we use the Fediverse. We're not space creatures or robots. We care about other humans and we love our kids and dogs.

There are currently two specs being worked on for reply control. You'll probably see some more work on this coming out soon.

Did we think of everything when we created ActivityPub? No. Did we make it extensible so future people could improve it? Yes we did.

19 June at 3:28 | Wall-to-wall | Open on cosocial.ca
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Evan Prodromou
Evan Prodromou

@fraying @kissane this one works by maintaining a canonical list of replies on the sender's server, so they can edit it.

codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src

19 June at 3:31 | Open on cosocial.ca
Evan Prodromou

@fraying @kissane probably the right answer is going to be a mix of the two.

19 June at 3:31 | Open on cosocial.ca
Evan Prodromou

@fraying @kissane if you hear from someone that the system works correctly now, because that was how it was designed, they are misinformed. Please feel free to tag me in.

19 June at 3:33 | Open on cosocial.ca
Derek Powazek 🐐

@evan @kissane Evan, I wasn’t talking about you. I understand why you might have thought I was, but trust me, you’ve proven yourself to be kind, smart, and considerate on this platform.

If anything, I’m talking about mastodon’s implementation in particular, but also Bluesky’s. I’m also complaining because I’m exactly the kind of communitarian who gets shouted at by fedi folks every time I talk about how this very good place could be improved, as Erin is here.

19 June at 3:32 | Open on xoxo.zone
Evan Prodromou

@fraying @kissane thanks, that's nice to say.

I agree that reply control is a high priority. I think we can find a solution that works.

19 June at 3:40 | Open on cosocial.ca
UkeBLCatboy

@evan @fraying @kissane I just really hope it doesn't fracture the network further because some servers don't agree how to use it or implement it amongst one another and defederate even more...

It's definitely needed but I do hope everyone agrees with it first so that problem doesn't become worse.

I love this place for the positive vibe but it really sucks that I can be following eg some cool fanartist from Asia but suddenly lose each other because stranger in Australia has beef with stranger

19 June at 5:55 | Open on mastodon.social
UkeBLCatboy

@evan @fraying @kissane in Brazil (the server admins) without either of us even knowing.

(Hypothetically, fandom is big and fun here but 99,99% of the amazing fanartists and cool cosplayers I follow worldwide are still on twitter. But you get the point, I hate that at any point you can just be cut off from anyone or whole groups beyond any control.)

I get why some consider it an anti-feature, it feels like the individual user isn't in control (same as with being unable to gate replies IG...)

19 June at 5:58 | Open on mastodon.social
Weird Ugly Sweaters

@evan
It gives me hope seeing this. Thank you.

19 June at 5:51 | Open on social.seattle.wa.us
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