 Did you know @pixelfed limits Direct Messages to 1-on-1 conversations? Unlike Mastodon and others, when you mention another account, we treat that as a link instead of including them in the convo and sending them a copy. Spammers cannot abuse Pixelfed to send the same DM to multiple accounts! (I'm aware that this breaks group chats which we don't support yet, but I do have a solution in mind) 7 comments
  @JoshHrach @pixelfed @dave This is only for direct messages, when your post is public or unlisted you can mention multiple people like you can on Mastodon!  @pixelfed Neat! I've often wished I could easily @ mention someone on Mastodon without pinging them. I mean, you can always post a link, but outside of certain clients, that usually takes readers to a page outside the instance they're signed into, so they can't interact with it without that annoying copy-paste rigmarole. Of course, the ability to @ mention someone you *do* want to ping is still nice, but I suspect that's easier to work around: Just DM pingee a link to the discussion. |
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@dansup @pixelfed IMO ActivityPub (or OStatus, for that matter) is not a useful protocol for chats in the first place, and it should be standard practise to bundle an ActivityPub 'social media' site with an XMPP server if you want one.. They've got all of the nice stuff like e2ee and group chats and moderation figured out already!