Post AkchEyIZIBCFqwRYEC by silverpill@mitra.social
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 (DIR) Post #AkchEuncInej04wI4G by jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net
       2024-08-02T15:59:25Z
       
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       In #Activitypub, replies to a post are a collection of links that are part of the original post. So it’s only natural that the original poster should be in control of what’s in the reply collection. Technically it’s quite simple to implement that the OP (original poster) can decide which replies he/she/they accept or refuse in said collection. It’s up to the developers of ActivityPub implementers like Mastodon et al to make that level of control accessible.
       
 (DIR) Post #AkchEvfr392biIJbbk by heluecht@pirati.ca
       2024-08-03T00:16:07Z
       
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       To make that work, comments would need to be relayed only via the account of the original poster - which isn't the case right now.
       
 (DIR) Post #AkchEwOsLl3NxvNYmW by jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net
       2024-08-03T17:28:19Z
       
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       @heluecht Yep. This should be seen as a bug, IMHO. A bit more details on my thoughts at https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/112899254853236437 which is a reply to a similar observation you make.
       
 (DIR) Post #AkchEx7Bh0V0BM6wqm by heluecht@pirati.ca
       2024-08-03T18:32:16Z
       
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       When the Social WG discussed about the protocol, I provided commentary. At that point in time, I already had worked with the Diaspora protocol and knew their way of distributing comments. I'm not totally sure anymore, but I can imagine that I suggested that to the WG as well.But I guess that AP inherited their current behaviour from pump.io. Sadly also LD signatures didn't took of. So we would need a different method of authenticating especially non public posts.
       
 (DIR) Post #AkchEyIZIBCFqwRYEC by silverpill@mitra.social
       2024-08-04T12:20:41.724459Z
       
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       @heluecht @jwildeboer Data integrity proofs (FEP-8b32) are an alternative to LD signatures, based on current web standards.Conversation Containers (which rely on integrity proofs) work as you described - comments are relayed by the conversation owner
       
 (DIR) Post #AkcrK05h3SesOwSSHo by aral@mastodon.ar.al
       2024-08-04T14:15:12Z
       
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       @jwildeboer One workaround (doesn’t address your core issue but at least to stop your instance distributing the reply) is to suspend the accounts.To your original point: yes, you should be able to fully control how comments work on your on own posts.