[broodbucket]

A lot of people defend this behaviour because a lot of the Fediverse (especially pre-Elon) were there because they were harassed on other platforms, and so discoverability is a negative feature. I don't see how that justifies the amount of vitriol thrown at the author, but that's where a lot of the culture has come from. Some people see any kind of project like this as an attack on their safety, which doesn't activate the part of your brain that's good at reasonable discourse.

[shadowgovt]

Discoverability is pretty much inevitable if the tech allows it.

It's a feature simply too useful to too many. It will get built if it can get built.

[hgsgm]

I get the desire to be "public but only when it works in my favor" , but it's just not practical. You have to choose whether to be public or private.