@futurebird The idea that you should have to talk to someone rather than about their post of public importance is so batshit and contrary to the way the real world works.

Imagine if students were assigned to @ authors over and over rather than writing about their books. 🤦

@futurebird I think their hidden assumption is that there should not be things of public importance here.

That everything here should be "politics free" interpersonal spaces for hobbies and feel-good stuff and everyone should ignore that the person they're engaging with about their hobbies is a nazi as long as they don't bring it up. 😠

@dalias @futurebird there is a goofy conflation of small and large posts and accounts. It can be annoying for a small time poster to end up in the public eye. But if you have news agencies, politicians, and billionaires on your network, spewing their stuff, we absolutely should be able to treat their statements as objects to be examined, rather than responding asking with 5000 other people, 99% of whom will be ignored.

And honestly I wouldn't want big accounts to be able to turn off #QT