@nyarlathotep @mint Well it comes from the delusional Tumblr era mindset, fueled by Twitter's (and Big Tech's to an extent) potemkin village of privacy (remember when Ricky Vaughn got party vanned over tweets that hadn't been up for years after he was banned? or how when Twitter unbanned Trump to try to lure him back every single one of his posts was visible after years?)

I heard that when the Twitter files stuff happened, the only thing, and I mean the only thing the lefties gave a shit about was the fact that Twitter can in fact read your DMs. Which to people like us, is something we almost always assume given we've either been on a forum with admins reading PMs or had access to a control panel to do so. But they thought it was truly secure, except it wasn't.

The same mindset is at play with Mastodon and they think that if they can yell at people enough the problem goes away since it worked on Tumblr and Twitter after all.