So, 24 hours later, I can't exactly remember why I ran this poll, but there seems to be two trends emerging:

• The people happy with the feature who don't seem to need any actual safety for their account, the illusion is enough for them.
• The people confused by its shortcomings who end up dropping it.

Like @heluecht , I don't like this half-feature and I think it should be removed. Coincidentally, I believe we should instead implement what Mike McGirvin described in his reply about the "Mutuals only" mode where only people you are mutuals with can react to your posts. Public posts still are public, but no interactions with them would be accepted from contact who aren't mutuals.

It's simpler and it can be enacted at the protocol level, no need to impact existing profile sub-pages.

What do people think about this?