@starrwulfe Interesting discussion! Personally I was a bit taken aback at the level of vitriol the Bridgy developer copped from Mastodon users. Personally I always felt that the syndication of public posts (which is, after all, what we’re talking about) was a good thing… if people really don’t want that, they’re going to need to grapple with their privacy settings, because not all developers will actually be reasonable people like the Bridgy guy.

I’ll admit the furore gave me second thoughts about “backfeeding” Mastodon replies onto my own site, though. Just because I think it’s OK, clearly doesn’t mean everyone agrees, so I decided to be more respectful of that. Now I have replies displaying as reactions, so it’s required to click through to see the original comment (I don’t think these people can actually object to their comments being linked to… surely). If there was a way to filter out “true” webmentions, including Micro.blog replies, to continue displaying those in full, I would, but I don’t think I can with webmention.io. In the longer term, though, it makes me unsure whether I should bother continuing to display webmentions at all. What is the risk-benefit ratio? I don’t really want to get attacked by people because they don’t know how to change the privacy setting on their reply posts to “Unlisted”, lol. And I’m also not sure how much I care any more about interactions being preserved with the posts themselves (especially cos often the display gets a bit mangled, especially with emojis). Argh, it’s an annoying one.