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   Matt Blaze (mattblaze@federate.social)'s status on Monday, 09-Oct-2023 08:53:01 JST Matt Blaze

   Reminder about Mastodon "private" messages. Aside from not being end-end-encrypted (and so visible to instance administrators), they CC anyone @-mentioned ANYWHERE in the body of the message (not just those listed at the start).

   They are now called "private mentions" rather than "private messages", but if you don't fully understand the semantics, this behavior may be unexpected and/or cause unpleasant side effects.

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     Matt Blaze (mattblaze@federate.social)'s status on Monday, 09-Oct-2023 08:53:12 JST Matt Blaze

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     Also, if you "turn off" private messages, anyone can still send them to you. They're just silently ignored by your client, without warning to the sender.

     Basically, private messages here remain a trainwreck. Use something else if you want to send someone a message privately.

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     oceaniceternity (oceaniceternity@sakurajima.moe)'s status on Monday, 09-Oct-2023 10:31:23 JST oceaniceternity

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     @mattblaze Honestly, the pm function is wierd and clunky and isn't a proper chat protocol. It's better to just trade handles and chat on matrix or smthing

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     Daniel Blake (daniel_blake@mastodon.top)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Oct-2023 04:55:42 JST Daniel Blake

     • Tobias Hellgren

     @thanius @mattblaze This is the iOS app-store page for the Element client - as recommended by Matrix.org