Matt BlazeI will admit I still don't understand what's so offensive about my pointing out the unsafe, confusing semantics of the Mastodon PM mechanism, or why this topic seems to provoke so much anger.
Basically, I have learned nothing from your yelling.
Anyway, while I don't understand why this pisses some people off so much, or why they take my critique of the Mastodon PM semantics so personally, it's now very clear that it does piss some people off quite a bit.
But I'm not going to let that stop me. I'm an expert on security and privacy. And my job is, in large part, to act as a public intellectual. Warning people of dangerous designs that could cause them harm is what I do. If doing so makes me an asshole, so be it.
Jeff C. 🇺🇦🇬🇱@mattblaze For what it’s worth, I know you’re right on this and there is nothing wrong with acknowledging it.
A lot of people don’t know the risk they’re incurring and it helps to let them know.
I love Mastodon — it is my new online “home” — but it’s not perfect, and the actual enemy of perfection is pretending otherwise.
@mattblaze FWIW, I get the sense that @Gargron is far more reasonable than the actual Mastodon fundamentalists. Hopefully he can be swayed to revisit the private messaging model.