nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqj46f9va5qdrmamcwmncew7g8mwekgma386dhws6k04fsnlkqpcpscruptt (nprofile…uptt) My take (which seems to fly in the face of the zeitgeist) is that Mastodon is not meant foremost as a private messaging app. It is at its core, an *open, social* microposting platform. There are apps that are radically better suited for private and safe comms, and I am a huge proponent of letting things be true to themselves. When you try to shoehorn stuff into a system not intended to do that stuff, it ends poorly.
So, sure, DMs out of the timeline, but no Signal-like hardening.
CM Harrington
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2026-02-19 22:57:51 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…kv0q
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