@cstross
The major software has resisted all sorts of safety features over the years, because techbros are gonna techbro.
It's actively harmful software when:
- open signups is the default
- new accounts can go from zero to thousands of outgoing messages
- servers blindly accept large amounts of incoming msgs from previously unseen servers or users
Again, if we had listened to marginalized people years ago we would all have been better off now. Funny how that works.