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Once upon a time, #twitter #DMs worked exactly the same way they work on #Mastodon, except there wasn't a visibility setting, instead you had to manually put 'DM' at the beginning of a tweet.

Yep, it was easy AF for your intended DMs to accidentally go public 🤣

If you notice, DM stands for 'DIRECT Message', not 'PRIVATE Message'. There should be no expectation of explicit privacy in a direct message - it simply goes directly to the mentioned users, not privately, and as on early twitter, it's possible for user error to fuck it up.

Hey Fediverse, I've seen a lot of people make references to DMs here , as in "DM me to talk about this topic ."
I assume that means direct message. But I don't see any sort of capability to do that anywhere! I can start a message by @'ing someone and they see it and reply usually, but it's just a normal toot.
So, what's wrong with me? What am I missing? Is it just my instance that lacks direct private messages?
#help #newb #noob #mastodonhelp #directmessage #directmessages #directmessaging

Just sent my first #DirectMessage in Mastodon.

While I appreciate the up-front warning about how such messages are not secure and you shouldn’t send sensitive information in them, I’m agog at the implication that people treat #Twitter and #Facebook messages as secure. Because I totally did not trust those companies not to read or leak my DMs, even before Space Putin took over.

Heck, I’m reluctant to send sensitive info over #iMessage, and I have a high level of trust in its security.