Hey, all of you who don't accept private messages, keep in mind that everything you say here is being recorded, catalogued, analyzed by powerful computers to find any weakness that can be used to exploit you. It's not as bad as Facebook, where they can bogart your data in order to sell it for money, but you are still in danger. These people are not even hiding their actions. They're just expecting you to be stupid enough to do everything in public and refuse to engage in private relationships out of some misbegotten pride that you don't talk to the lesser people who aren't already in your inner circle. So uh, stop it.

You're 100% valid rejecting private messages trying to hide an abuser's true nature. Anything else, get off your high horse and talk to people who don't want to shout what they have to say to the world.

#Fediverse #philosophy #rant