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.
Adam Shostack 
@mattblaze I don’t think you’re an ass.
I do think people get invested in/identify with the software they use and so take things personally. As a YouTuber I don’t understand
@mattblaze Also I got some of the same for pointing out that posts were public by design when there was the whole misguided publicity around search features built into the default clients.
Steve Bellovin@adamshostack @mattblaze Matt has implied that there is a misfeature in the One True Social Network. That's a serious sin. And if the design should change to be the way that Matt (or I) would prefer it, all of the folks now criticizing Matt would not only applaud the new feature, they'd deny they ever opposed it.
@SteveBellovin @mattblaze Steve, just because your social network lasted longer than Twitter doesn’t … ok I suppose it does make you qualified to comment. 😀
@SteveBellovin @adamshostack We've always been at war with Eastasia
Chris Petrilli@mattblaze @SteveBellovin @adamshostack I somehow read this as … We have always been at war with Emacs.
Dan Cross@mattblaze @petrillic @SteveBellovin @adamshostack don't you mean Ctl-Meta-X q Esc surrender-without-saving-buffer ?
Gabriel Viso Carrera@cross @mattblaze @petrillic @SteveBellovin @adamshostack that's a shortcut for carpal tunnel syndrome.
Artemesia@petrillic @mattblaze @SteveBellovin @adamshostack
vivivi, the editor of the beast
@mattblaze @adamshostack Funny, that's that example I was thinking of, too.
Norman Wilson