Gregory's Server@gcluley w/r/t the DM issue i think it's really meant to be a regular fediverse post directed to one (or more) mentioned users rather than an inbox-type thing
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@gcluley I agree that it can be made more clear. I only point it out because a lot of writeups and complaints about this feature also give the impression that it's a badly-implemented private messaging system, rather than just another privacy setting for posts. I personally don't care about having an inbox-style messaging system at all; other tools (Signal, Jami, etc) seem more appropriate that. But YMMV. |
@violet_cerue Yes, I understand.
The problem is that many users will be used to the idea of "direct messages" working rather differently on other sites, and so won't realise that Mastodon direct messages are quite a different thing.
Ideally they'd be called something else to avoid confusion. Actually, ideally there would be real direct messages between users rather than the current hodge-podge.