Did you notice that nobody is talking about displaying the chat on stream except you? This has nothing to do with the things I said above. I wasn’t talking about showing the chat on screen, you just don’t connect to the group server, connect anonymous or drop the private messages. I was talking about the chat that the streamer is reading to interact with his audience.
“Strangers” does not mean the streamer don’t know the people (e. g. his moderators), it just means that they don’t follow that person. Following a bot so that he can send you for example TS3 login information is for most viewers not really obvious. On Twitch messages it is not that bad as they will still find the message in the other folder. Not sent private messages will not even give you an error message nor inform the receipt that somebody wanted to contact him. Explaining this to your audience when messages can not be send will be a pain and as a result of this devs and viewers will stop using this feature. And that is what I want to avoid.