@benroyce@mastodon.social @evan@cosocial.ca that sounds reasonable to me. We all have some level of duty to be skeptical, especially of claims about people

@benroyce@mastodon.social @evan@cosocial.ca this idea occurred to me, but in general I think this hardly ever actually matters in practice.

If Bob is the kind of person to fake screenshots, then everyone, especially Alice, will presumably block him.

I could be wrong on this, but it seems to me like a trick you can only pull once, and not that impressive of one.

And if I’m right that fake screenshots isn’t an important attack vector, then there isn’t much difference between sharing the post and sharing the screenshot of it.

@evan@cosocial.ca if Bob is malicious, he could simply screenshot Alice’s post and share it with his followers.

With that in mind, it seems reasonable for his reply to be sent to his followers, with an off-by-default checkbox to also forward Alice’s message to his followers.

People who don’t follow Bob probably shouldn’t see Bob’s reply. But if Alice appreciates it, she could have an option to forward it to her followers (except any who have blocked Bob). Or maybe if she gives it a / (and it’s a non-private message) then it’s automatically sent to her followers?

It would also make sense for Charlie to have a profile-wide option to not see replies to posts that he can’t see. Even if I’m interested in Bob, I don’t need to see his reply to an invisible post by Alice.

I realise that has some uncomfortable implications, but as you describe, all of the options seem to. That’s what makes it a tough question