This is a pretty awesome statement. Well said. Still, there is some point at which if you receive enough volume of spam, it is too much of a burden to sift through it all.

I am not a famous personage. Few people want to get in touch with me. Even so, my X DMs are destroyed with scam messages. So much so that I rarely really check them thoroughly because checking them means scrolling through endless Occasionally, I have missed messages from real people who I would have liked to interact with.

Email is slightly different (mostly because spam filters are pretty good) - but my wife had the experience where the tech support at her company was incompetent and managed to screw up their email so that messages from their domain got sent to spam in most clients.

I can see pay to email or DM as a hacky kind of solution to systems that don't work great right now.