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!Friendica Support Out of curiosity is there a way in Friendica to ONLY allow the friends to comment on your posts? I know that basically anyone can regardless, but to never be visible to you almost like anyone who is not your friend, is IGNORED. I think that could be a great way to deal with the trolls and for big accounts to better manage their mental health.

EDIT: I created this issue https://github.com/friendica/friendica/issues/13650

in reply to Tio

@Tio Only in follower-only posts at the moment I’m afraid.
@Tio

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in reply to Hypolite Petovan

Meaning you can limit the interactions on your posts to your followers? Am not sure I understood that.

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in reply to Tio

@Tio Follower-only posts are private to your followers, meaning only your followers can have access to it and therefore interact with it.
@Tio

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in reply to Hypolite Petovan

Sounds like Tio's idea is that everybody can see it but only followers comment.
That's a nice idea.
Reshares (links) will be used to comment on them without your intarction.

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in reply to Tio

@Tio ... That would be nice, to prevent certain people from commenting on my (public) post. Sometimes persons can really destroy a post when they are too penetrant. I had also asked this question and was told that ActivityPub does not allow this, currently. My hope is, that AP could possibly be improved one day. So I can control who comments or even "close the discussion" if it gets too much.
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in reply to xy..

@xy.. @Tio

I didn't realise it worked that way, good to know. If I post for followers only and a follower reshares that, does the scope change to their followers or will it remain mine?

Just thinking, if I don't want non-followers to comment, why would I want to post publicly?

@Tio @xy..

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in reply to Jerry van Kooten

"Followers only" posts are not public. The reshare only is allowed on public posts.
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in reply to Jerry van Kooten

Just thinking, if I don't want non-followers to comment, why would I want to post publicly?

Because you may simply want others to see your posts but not want to see their responses to it. Like I can make a Wordpress blogpost and do not allow anyone to comment. At times this is useful, especially when you may get invaded by trolls.

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in reply to Tio

@Tio
/offtopic

Tio's bio wrote:

so that we can understand us, the atoms, and the rest of the universe
@Tio

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in reply to utopiArte

haah ok you found the answer already. i can retire.

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Tio
Yes but I am thinking about public posts that anyone can see, but only some can comment to.

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