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   msdropbear42 (msdropbear42@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 25-Aug-2023 08:12:25 JST msdropbear42

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   • alfred
   • hypolite

   @hypolite @alfred Ooooooooohhhhhhhhh! I see! Aaaaarrrgggghh, so maybe i chose the wrong Instance! Oh now i do feel silly! Looks like tomorrow my task will be to find an alternative Friendica Instance, then start all over again setting it up. Deary me, what a waste of time i have done to myself, sigh. I shall try the Export function & hope that it might do most of the work for me, to avoid needing to tediously manually finesse all the settings again. 🤞

   I'm very grateful for your feedback, thank you!

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     hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 25-Aug-2023 08:12:26 JST hypolite

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     • alfred

     @msdropbear42 Also a word of warning about Libranet.de, his admin bravely runs the develop branch where we merge all the new features/fix meant for the next release. This allows us to test our changes in a large user base context, and this means things can break occasionally before we get to fix them.

     If you already trust @alfred and would prefer a more stable experience, I'd recommend you to try your luck over at venera.social which is also run by Steffen but on the stable branch that only gets updated during official releases.

     Otherwise, the official Friendica public server directory can help you find a new home: dir.friendica.social/servers

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     hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 25-Aug-2023 08:12:28 JST hypolite

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     @msdropbear42 I hear your frustration, but now I'm a bit confused. Out of the two methods you tried to send DMs to Mastodon accounts, which one worked if any? The Private Message page or the regular Compose page with the Access Control List tailored to send only to a specific account?

     Also which Submit button you clicked where nothing happened at all? This could be a local interface/script bug rather than a larger federation issue.

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     msdropbear42 (msdropbear42@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 25-Aug-2023 08:12:29 JST msdropbear42

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     • hypolite

     @hypolite Hello, thanks for your reply & interesting info.
     

     Unfortunately the Private Message feature in /message is sometimes unreliable

     
     Oh, well that's most disappointing, but certainly fits with my frustrating experience that nothing at all happened after i clicked Submit.

     Fortunately, you found the correct workaround, no one else but your target recipients can see messages you send using the Access Control List selector in the screenshot you took

     
     No but you see, this was the reason i made my OP... this method looks like it works from the Friendica perspective, in that the DM "sends" ... but that's no good because the essential second part of the process NEVER occurs, as i said in my OP -- the DM never arrives in Masto, thus defeating the entire purpose.

     Tbh i'm feeling a bit distraught about this now, because in other respects, having spent last night & all today inside my new Friendica account & learning how to drive it, i have really come to like it & could definitely imagine switching from my Masto Instance to this one as my new daily default Fedi account. However, it's pretty important that i can still send DMs from here to contacts in Masto, so if i can't [& as of now, i still cannot], then it jeopardises the possibility of using this account fulltime. It's a bit sad. 😢

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     hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 25-Aug-2023 08:12:30 JST hypolite
     @msdropbear42 Unfortunately the Private Message feature in /message is sometimes unreliable. Fortunately, you found the correct workaround, no one else but your target recipients can see messages you send using the Access Control List selector in the screenshot you took.