@esp @gargron yeah, I see how it's a privacy issue, even for toots that are explicitly public.

I was just providing the positive use in case you weren't aware of it. I'd like to be able to reply to bloggers or micro.blog folks from my account here and have some chance of their seeing it. Maybe if it were framed as a reply (like with an @ preceding the link), that would be more consistent with user expectations.