@wraptile Mastodon’s variable reply visibility (because of federation) makes it essentially impossible to correct misinfo via replies; I’ve tried, it doesn’t really work.
Mastodon does not have “post public, decide who replies,” which is what I’m talking about. Several much larger networks do have reply-gating for public posts, and they are used for good and bad purposes, like replies themselves, like blocking, like microblogging.
@kissane to me it feels like "screaming into the public with your ears closed" is a very toxic way to do public discourse even if you disagree about the very valid danger of misinformation here.
What's wrong with just posting privately? You can't have your cake and eat it too.
For a healthy public space it needs the ability to self correct and we know for a fact that peer pressure is effective.
In a more colloquial sense: if you want to talk shit you should be ready to take some shit too lol