It's also the way most social networks work. If the OP posts privately, all the comments and replies to comments are visible to *all* the OP's followers.
This is how Facebook, Instagram, and X all work.
They let you have private conversations with people that matter to you. It's one of the best parts of those platforms.
And in to the slow cooker it goes for about 8 hours or so. I used my leather sewing twine rather than do a shop run (hour round trip)#pudding #christmas