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soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:
One of the more painful (heh) lessons in life is that actions have consequences. Maybe social consequences. Maybe financial or legal ones.
Sure, you can't slap someone's face over the Internet (though IRC's /commands and trout were a common experience in my age group), the way you can in movie theater parking lots.
And the easiest way to avoid provoking a response you don't like is to avoid being a dick.
Matrix got proverbially smacked twice because its evangelists were rude and spoke over me.
Other messaging apps provoked this response through arrogance or trying to spread baseless fear in apps that actually implemented their encryption better than theirs.