[Brian_K_White]

They even actually do host their own server, which they could make private any time if they hate to be seen so much.

I'm sympathetic to the crowd of newcomers image they paint, but weakly. As in I agree it's annoying to have some quiet spot you had found get popular. But if you didn't own that spot and it was only quiet by chance, and it was fully public all along, OH WELL.

I do not understand their complaints about consent to have their voluntarily and actively published things be seen and reshared. They asked to be both seen and reshared by publishing publicly on a public instance, whose publicness they even control themselves on top of the controls for any individual post, on a protocol in which other servers redistribute copies of the original to all other servers and users.

Consent for all that resharing was well and truly given, yes including off platform. The only complaint they have is if any of the resharing stripped their name. Just like this blog post being CC-BY 4.0