Men I don’t know have been yelling at me for about 24 hours about how I am promoting toxicity and misinformation and am a narcissist and a bully in replies to my short thread about how it would be super nice to have control over replies here. To give people who for some reason don’t find people yelling at them to be the highest form of online communication a way to participate in public life online.

Many perfectly reasonable comments agreeing and disagreeing, but like…lordy.

The most recent one is, I guess, accusing me of sending him unwanted DMs by…replying to him in public?

I guess Mastodon is confusing even to FOSS guys sometimes!

@kissane No doubt he doesn't know the difference between a text and an email on his phone.
@juliewebgirl but the linux

@kissane @juliewebgirl

> but the linux

whether this is a meme or something you just made up ... it is new to me and *perfect* ... I literally lol'd!