SER on Nostr: Someone on Mastodon just posted a discussion titled: "Right of Reply, or: who should ...

Someone on Mastodon just posted a discussion titled: "Right of Reply, or: who should be able to reply to your posts on a social network, and how do we technically enforce that?"

I'm going to put it out there that people will one day look back and say, "this is the day Mastodon jumped the shark."

The first step was this effort to create defederation lists based on subscription to the defederation list; the second was the assertion by some people that, if you run a node, you have some moral obligation to police your users -- the words used were "this was the job you signed up for." This concept of "right of reply" is absurd.

You're posting content *publically.* You want the right to selectively silence people responding in the public sphere? You get to talk, they don't? If they don't reply directly to your comment, but reference the comment in a completely separate thread, do you get the right to silence them there?

I can't even begin to wrap my brain around the ethical gymnastics needed to justify this, much less the technical impossibility.