I really crave a Mastodon feature to "allow only replies from followers" or being able to remove all the disinformation being spread in my replies.

[em0nm4stodon@infosec.exchange]

I really crave a Mastodon feature to "allow only replies from followers" or being able to remove all the disinformation being spread in my replies. Because the mansplainer season is strong this year. And I have no spoons to give free education to all of them.

[oli@olifant.social]

@Em0nM4stodon That's Interaction Policies, and I've heard Mastodon is looking into doing this, just not sure when. Their canQuote is being pulled into GoToSocial to go along with their canReply, canLike, canAnnounce (boost):

https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/v0.20.3/federation/interaction_policy/

My default interaction policy for replies is exactly what you say:

Anyone can like, anyone can boost, however to reply either I follow you, or you follow me, in which case replies are automatic, or else I manually approve the reply.

You can configure the reply policy as a default for all posts, and then you can even (if the software supports it) do interaction policies for specific posts. Like if you want to disallow all replies, for instance.