FWIW: I'm fine either way.

Details:

It sucks to only learn about (legitimate) toots contributed by mastodon.social users to discussions I take part in, only because other people refer to those toots.

It sucks receiving spam.

It is really one of those decisions that can be taken either way.

(There exist those evil things which confront you with decisions where no choice is clean. War tends to do that really fast. Apparently, so also does spam.)

@M0YNG