People who are "just asking questions" and "just sharing their opinion" that nobody asked for are in the minority here.
But until reply controls are implemented by more fediverse platforms, they will continue to ruin the experience of people here, and contribute to our community's negative reputation.
Let's continue to call this stuff out, and when appropriate, also report it.
@tchambers Yes, we definitely need a variety of tools here.
I keep drawing parallels to blogging. Mastodon is a micro-blogging platform.
On my blog, I have full control of what appears under my posts. I never once in my life got called out for not having comments enabled.
Maybe I don't want to deal with spam. Others who are more likely to attract harassment just based on their identity will likely not want to deal with that either.
I think people are a bit closeminded when it comes to understanding that we all experience the web differently, have different needs and challenges.
Some people seem to care more about being able to talk back at strangers.
I did not enable comments for my blog either.
For the same reasons, more or less.
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