@snarfed I want to opt-out. I hate having to opt out. There are thousands of people on this world that add me to their services (spam, mostly) and I have to opt-out of them all. It doesn't scale. I don't understand how you are manually opting people out, though. I hope you get thousands of messages that you have to handle manually, I guess? That's how it feels. Same with those hashtags in my bio. It's my bio and people assume that I might want to use it for #nobridge, #nobots, #noindex, #nosearch, #nospam and on and on? It doesn't scale and it pisses of thousands of people. Only a little, for sure, but since so many developers and service providers force thousands of people to suffer a little, it still adds up. Like all those stupid NO_TELEMETRY=1, telemetry=no, and other settings where I have to opt out, for every single development environment, language, tool, program and app I want to use. Yes, it gets you more users, but they all hate you for it. Perhaps you don't care, because somebody else is going to enjoy this service. But how many small stingers of hate are you willing to impose on people for that one drop of joy you deliver? This only scales if you don't feel the pain, I guess.

CC @snarfed.org – you can opt out by replying "please remove me from this conversation", I guess. Or block me. Or deferate me. Or add #OptOutIsWrong to your bio.