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So, here's a problem I have with Mastodon: let's say I make a post and someone replies with a racist, sexist, homophobic or transphobic comment. I can block the commenter, but that only hides it for me. Other people who come to my page will see the comment, and believe that I tacitly condone that behaviour. I'd like to be able to delete the reply from my replies list entirely. Or at least hide replies from blocked accounts. And, yes, I know that wouldn't delete it from the originating server.
@evan Yeah, that's been a consistent ask for a very long time, as I understand it. I think fep-7888 (and fep-5624, revised to apply to the context field as described in 7888) gives the most robust and reliable mechanism to federate that kind of reply moderation.
https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/fep-7888-demystifying-the-context-property/3021/2
@jenniferplusplus @evan There's no need to even use context. Just allow people to remove posts from the Replies collection.
@jenniferplusplus @adrienne moderating the whole tree seems like a lot, although it's possible. I think starting with `replies` gets us part of the way there.
@evan @adrienne personally, I'll take any viable solution that gets some cross platform agreement. I prefer context in this case for several reasons. Notably, it's an indexable property that could actually make it faster to load reply trees, it's more complete, and it's not any more difficult to implement.