The 0.5% on fedi are more likely to be the technical users that actually produce usable content.

How many thread users are bots or passive consumers? They may be good for serving ads to, but they’re not so food at retaining and attracting users

Sure they can. If you can’t see them you might want to consider checking out Monkey Joe’s optometry, they’re pretty cheap and got good stock.

False equivalence.

No one’s posting everything that everyone’s said. And if i had an opinion i wanted kept private i’d keep it fucking private

He chose to express a contentious, offensive opinion to another party… in a written form on a electronic medium - THE single most insecure easily shared thing imaginable. And not only that, from the looks of it did so when it wasn’t even within the topic of conversation. Don’t act fucking shocked pikachu when that shit leaks out

A participant in the conversation chose to share, so your entire argument is bullshit