I am setting up a private instance for people in a small town. I need to accommodate individuals with mental health needs and this is the most important requirement for this project.

I need the option to restrict some members from posting toots or only allow their toots after they have been reviewed and approved by moderators.

Limiting or silencing their account doesn’t help because their followers can still see their posts and some posts could cause distress to others.

I can’t suspend accounts because of the mental health implications it could have if I prevent them from being part of the community.

Is there an easy way to accomplish this?

  • Ivrezul@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Zero. You would have to code your own moderation system into mastodon because there is zero control on specific posts in mastodon because it is designed to be open and free.

    You’d be better served with something like Buddypress since it has built in post moderation as a part of WordPress. There is an activity pub plugin in WordPress granted I haven’t managed to get it to work with Mastodon yet.