Enable Twitter-style Reply Controls on a Per-Toot Basis

### Pitch Twitter's reply model has been extended with some LJ-like features. Replies to a tweet can now be restricted to: - Replies only from accounts \@-mentioned in the tweet - Replies only from accounts followed by the sender of the tweet and those \@-mentioned in the tweet - No restriction Something similar to this was proposed in #8565, from two years ago, but the Twitter implementation is more robust. One of the objections to this was the fear that a user could \@-mention a user, and disable replies. Twitter's implementation is aware of this and allows any account \@-mentioned to reply to any tweet. ### Motivation This allows no-comment toots by setting the \@-mention only reply setting, and not mentioning any other accounts. Communities, especially marginalized communities, need a way to have discoverable conversations, but limit posting access to members of the community (via following.) This can be used to assist in moderation so that, for example people involved in the conversation don't have to spend time explaining background (ie 101, google the topic, etc) or passive aggressive "reply-guys". This expands and empowers users so they don't have to use brute-force blocks or mutes.

Posted by emceeaich on Sep 8, 2020, 8:41 AM

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