In ActivityPub, PMs are just “notes”. They’re comments that don’t get posted in public, essentially. This has the (hilariously awkward) side effect of sending a copy of your entire private conversation if you tag a user you’re gossiping about, especially on Mastodon.
ActivityPub is not suited for PMs. Use Matrix, XMPP, Signal, or anything else instead. You’re one @[email protected] away from sharing your message history.
I guess most people consider them to be a separate thing. I’ll add them to the list.
How does it not get PMs?
Are those local per device only?
In ActivityPub, PMs are just “notes”. They’re comments that don’t get posted in public, essentially. This has the (hilariously awkward) side effect of sending a copy of your entire private conversation if you tag a user you’re gossiping about, especially on Mastodon.
ActivityPub is not suited for PMs. Use Matrix, XMPP, Signal, or anything else instead. You’re one @[email protected] away from sharing your message history.
I guess most people consider them to be a separate thing. I’ll add them to the list.
Well that’s a super good piece of information Holy shit.
Haha, neat. That’s good to know! I wish the Lemmy apps would stop advertising PM’s them.
I don’t think I ever PM’d anyone on Reddit unless it was /r/HardwareSwap anyways.