Emelia 👸🏻@evan @blaine direct messages are a set of messages directly between a limited audience initially defined at the start of the conversation via UI that addresses "to" versus the message body. They're one continuous thread; You can read the history of all your direct messages with a given person easily.
Mentioned People Only is closer to a more limited Followers Only.
Ideally DMs are E2EE.
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