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.
cohomology is FUN!1) you are right about this (design issue with PMs)
2) even if you were wrong, it’s not your fault that people get bent out of shape for you expressing a fairly benign opinion (it’s not like you are being a bigot or something)
3) if anyone is being assholes, it’s the people going ballistic because someone they follow boosted a post of yours on photography they found uninteresting and think somehow that’s your fault