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I agree. There's been an issue open requesting Mastodon reply controls since 2020, so hopefully this will be implemented sometime...

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/14762

GoToSocial **does** have reply controls. If you'd like to try them out with a test account I can point you to an instance.

https://codeberg.org/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial#reply-controls