“I don't want to ask on every post.”

Then feel free to not respond to me. Reconsider the way that social media and the internet is used. You do not have to engage with me all the time just because you follow me.

I have very often started drafting a response to someone only to delete it because it felt inadequate and potentially invasive. I have changed an entire response to something that asks for permission or grants access. I have prefaced statements with “This is tangential, but I also noticed...”

And with every consideration and change, I have had productive conversations and came up with new considerations and ideas that I hadn't thought of prior to that moment or wouldn't have recognised.

You do not need to simply respond to a complaint with a way to individually fix a problem that someone is pointing out as being infrastructural or systemic. You can just... commiserate.

You can also see it as a time to reflect upon the world around you. If this is an area you're interested in, what does it look like for you? And how do you fix it? And are there more people around you like me who have the same worries and frustrations and needs? Are there others beyond people like me who are being neglected and ignored?

You don't need to respond. Reading can be, and often is, enough.