• Telorand@reddthat.com
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    13 days ago

    And to further clarify, even DMs aren’t technically private, they’re just hidden.

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      13 days ago

      Supporting this, Lemmy encourages people not to use DMs and wants people to add Matrix user details to their profile instead.

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      13 days ago

      A DM is literally just like @ing someone on Mastodon and setting the visibility to that user only. It’s just unlisted. If you were the instance admin or otherwise knew the ID of the DM, you can find it.