@Flaky so, the people?
Or the fact that you can't limit replies?
The latter is supposey being looked into. The former is definitely an issue sometimes and people need to stop being so "self-righteous" about everything.
You're not better than anyone else just cause you refrain from YouTube.
People can be weird. Though, this is the internet, people say words, and sometimes those words are not nice.
That's not a Fediverse thing, that's a human thing.