Replies from 16 October 2020

Glad to hear everything is OK!

"likely weren't" - this is the whole point! "likely" implies that there were people who were affected, having the risk of assault, rape, or murder. It's very unlikely that we'll know for sure, but making a feature opt-in to literally protect people isn't the end of the world. "negative default settings" was the state of play before the change. They didn't give people a choice, and didn't provide sufficient support to users to understand this. So by making the change, we're now in "positive default settings"

It only had high social appeal because no one knew it was on, so you're lamenting something that never truly was. But as we've said, if you want to continue using it with others, all you need to do is enable it before running together