Notices by Jim Vernon (jimvernon@techhub.social)

@ned Obviously a lot of Israelis did survive the Holocaust to bomb people because it's been happening for various reasons (some justified, some not) since shortly after WWII ended and Israel was created.

It's probably being too charitable toward humans in general to assume that going through something like the Holocaust would automatically make someone a pacifist. I could see quite the opposite happening where many such folk would feel the need to be overzealous in defending themselves to make sure they don't fall victim again.

@freemo @MoiraEve @georgetakei I doubt you'd actually think it's a huge difference if you found out that you weren't considered the worst person, just one of the worst people. Either way, you're still the worst, you just have company in the latter situation.

@freemo @MoiraEve @georgetakei You did say those words. I scrolled back up and those words appear verbatim in your preceding post. The "one of the" phrase does not make the huge difference that you're wanting us to believe that it does.

@mattblaze @benjamincodes Are you using the official Mastodon client or a third party one? I'm seeing that two of the third party clients I have installed say "Direct" instead of "Only mentioned people" like the official client says. That does seem like it would confuse people.

@mattblaze @benjamincodes I'm not trying to offend. I just don't understand where the confusion comes from. The UI says what it's going to do and it says it in three words: "Only mentioned people". There doesn't seem to be a lot there to get confused about, so I'm wondering what I'm missing that's confusing some people. I assume the Mastodon devs would be wondering the same thing if they saw your post.

@benjamincodes @mattblaze There is no "Direct Message" feature in Mastodon. You have the option to post something with the privacy level set to "Only mentioned people". That seems pretty straight forward. You mention people, they can see the toot. It doesn't claim to be a secure, end-to-end encrypted messaging system. In fact, Mastodon specifically warns you of this when you change the privacy setting to "Only mentioned people". The feature is just for when you want to limit who you're interacting with when posting, perhaps to continue a conversation without public visibility.

@darwinwoodka I have a hard time feeling much sympathy for anyone and any organization still using Twitter. They're simply prolonging the "this is where everyone still is" phase of Twitter's downward spiral.