It is a user setting and quite a reasonable one at that, in Pike's case in particular.

What do you mean? I did some quick googling and am unsure what you are implying here.

	▲	andreasgl an hour ago \| parent [-]
		There’s an option for setting the visibility of your posts: https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3kgbz6tc6gl24