I thought Mastodon's quote post controls were

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I thought Mastodon's quote post controls were extensive...these are "boundaries" that can be set in Bonfire for your posts. Not to mention the roll your own "Custom Boundaries". Mix and Match!

I question how these boundaries federate, are they honored across platforms?

GoToSocial has some reply controls that basically just drop replies you don't want. So other platforms may not honor the request and still send them, but they are just ignored. I'm sure similar here.

#Bonfire #ActivityPub

A user interface screen displaying advanced permissions and settings related to defining activity boundaries. Options include settings for public visibility, requests, and various actions like boosting, replying, quoting, tagging, and deleting objects. The image shows a user interface for defining activity boundaries and general permissions. It includes options for setting visibility to public, managing advanced permissions such as request and reply settings, and features like boosting and following specific users or groups.
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@box464 we started drafting a section on "how do boundaries federate" in this document: https://docs.bonfirenetworks.org/boundaries.html

The short story is we interoperate with Mastodon's newly introduced canQuote and and GoToSocial's canReply/canLike/canAnnounce for general boundaries like only follows can reply or everyone can quote, and for everything else it's enforcement at the level of your instance (e.g. "basically just drop replies you don't want"). Feedback on that and on the docs as well is more than welcome!

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