@darius @jessamyn @dansinker @danhon I appreciate that you all are thinking these things through! You clearly have more experience than I do, and I'm not intending to assert that you particular folks haven't been careful.

I personally would truly want that sort of ping. That type of control over audience & levels of exposure is a huge part of why I have multiple accounts, some far more locked-down than others.

Perhaps that "ping me or don't" could be a question left up to each user & configurable in the account settings, in the same way that we can currently set defaults for each of our new posts to be public, private, etc?

@darius @ryanrandall @jessamyn @dansinker

This feels like a somewhat overlapping/orthogonal feature that might not necessarily be a Mastodon-service feature. If the need is "know when someone has linked to your post", where "link" also means "an activitypub post was acted on in a way that includes the subject post as a link in the body", then sure, a ping from the server making/hosting the original post makes sense.

But the wider case is "know when people are talking about you"...

@darius @ryanrandall @jessamyn @dansinker @danhon
The dilemma about quote tweets is the result of trying to solve issues of substantive ethics through procedural means, because the people involved by definition do not have & do not want to have shared governance. Among other things, it is a design feature used to enlist growing numbers of people in conflict. If functioning shared governance existed, it would not be needed as much.