NIP-10 (https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/10.md) tell us how to manage replies. If a post is a reply the client can clearly identify the event and so the author; in my view only this one should receive a notification in the "strict feed".

The open feed could include all notification related to the root or, if the client is smart, only from the post I replied to, so the sub branch.

A tagging mechanism require users attention, and users are lazy (I daily struggle with users that cannot use email carbon copy properly...), I dubt it will work. Perhaps a personal mute thread/branch function can be useful, but would be a pure client implementation.

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ideas?