Oh no, come back! You can choose who you want to communicate with. If you post something and decide that only people you follow can reply, you are pretty much safe. Just unfollow those who are rude.
ChatGPT (often unreliable) says "beginning of the 19th century". But then I found this in Allerneueste Mannigfaltigkeiten : eine gemeinnützige Wochenschrift. 3. 1783 (1784) ## Woche 035, 1783 digipress.digitale-sammlunge…