And a reminder for those who read this thread: Do not forget to disable quotes as well. Otherwise, your content may be thrown into an audience you may not want to be in (with a direct link to your profile).
From what I’ve tested there is no timer, I have just followed you again and it let me reply to you. Unless it’s considering previous follow time, as I had followed you for a while in the past.
I had someone here once yell at me to prove there's bots here as they were under the impression it was safe. Showed them my block list of 2 pages of bots, and well they blocked me instead. Ok then no loss. 🤣
I have a feeling your opinions are usually informed and actually based on what someone is saying/doing, not the bad faith misinterpretations Alec is more used to dealing with though.
I feel like a possible rule of thumb as to whether you're actually the GIF below is whether you get likes/positive replies, or almost always get ignored/blocked, though I have such a similar "am I imposing?" internal fear that Alec's reply above was legitimately like a little parasocial hug to me.
I don’t think I’m going to like this. It’s nice to hear from new voices. That’s how I follow people and vice versa. Sounds rather boring to only interact with the same folks.
This feature/restriction only applies to posts where the original poster sets it, and it seems to mainly be posters with large audiences that wanted it, so there will probably still be lots of posts where anyone can reply and you can discover new people.
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It's them discover feed yokels who react to thing like bots.
https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2014/05/16/thwarter
Either way, a lot less swill to dilute the discourse with.