{"ancestors":[{"id":"111930860436581505","created_at":"2024-02-14T16:49:37.000Z","in_reply_to_id":null,"in_reply_to_account_id":null,"sensitive":false,"spoiler_text":"","visibility":"public","language":"en","uri":"https://cosocial.ca/users/evan/statuses/111930859695457725","url":"https://cosocial.ca/@evan/111930859695457725","replies_count":10,"reblogs_count":4,"favourites_count":0,"quotes_count":0,"edited_at":null,"content":"\u003cp\u003eShould fediverse accounts default to manually approve followers?\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://cosocial.ca/tags/EvanPoll\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e#\u003cspan\u003eEvanPoll\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e \u003ca href=\"https://cosocial.ca/tags/poll\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e#\u003cspan\u003epoll\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","reblog":null,"account":{"id":"109540584896598415","username":"evan","acct":"evan@cosocial.ca","display_name":"Evan Prodromou","locked":false,"bot":false,"discoverable":true,"indexable":true,"group":false,"created_at":"2022-12-11T00:00:00.000Z","note":"\u003cp\u003eHe/him. 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