Agreed. People demand this, acting shocked--SHOCKED!--that this isn't part of the fediverse already.
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Agreed. People demand this, acting shocked--SHOCKED!--that this isn't part of the fediverse already.
"Oh no! Don't use DMs!" they say. "They aren't end-to-end encrypted."
Neither are your DMs on Twitter, or Facebook, or any other social network as far as I'm aware. What makes Mastodon so fucking special to require this, I don't get it.
Also, on Twitter/X, Elon Musk just cracks open your DMs and will send them to Bari Weiss to do a hit piece on you, so you know that shit isn't E2EE there.
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Robert George π³ππΉππ₯ππreplied to Oliphantom Menace last edited by
@oliphant honestly, I donβt really think we *need* e2ee DMs. But I think we need actual DMs, where you actually address the message to a particular person (or group). The current state of things, βprivate mentionsβ, is confusing and also makes it easy to accidentally add (or subtract) participants from the conversation, since the participants need to be explicitly mentioned in each post.
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Oliphantom Menacereplied to Robert George π³ππΉππ₯ππ last edited by
@rrgeorge I've seen this happen in the wild, where I've created an audience and we're discussing federation with a new server, and someone is like, "Who is the admin of that server" and someone replies with the handle of that admin, and hey, welcome to our conversation, server admin.
Not a big deal in this case, but I can absolutely see how that would be frustrating.
And without Markdown, you can't easily break the handle unless you use spaces.
In other words:
@[email protected]used like this won't tag you.
