I'm genuinely perplexed at people who say they receive “a barrage of extremely rude, very entitled, often misinformed responses,” or something to the same effect, because when you go look at the responses it is _never, ever_ true.
It's not that I can't see some of them. I went to her instance, so I saw whatever she got. She's lying, plain and simple.
I singled her out as an example, but my point is more general: why do people lie about something that's so easy to check?
@olives When she wrote that, I checked her previous post on Signal here and not only were there no rude comments (a few confronted her on her claims, but all of them in a very civil way), most actually cheered on her.
In any case, I singled her out just because I happened to see that post, but a lot of people do the same thing: complaining about being abused online while getting nothing but positive responses or some polite criticism at worst.