[noelrock]

Not at all the same issue but vaguely relevant — I like the idea of ambiently joining some Twitter spaces without feeling obliged to contribute.

Would strike me as a decent trade off that non contributors should be able to join anonymously.

Whenever I’ve joined something in my specific area to date, I’m called on to contribute maybe half the time by the host - which is generally fine and I’m happy to, but sometimes you’re not able to… so it puts you off joining altogether.

[steelstraw]

That might be making it harder for smaller rooms to grow, if there's a lot of users less likely to join because of that. Whereas in big rooms you disappear in the crowd.