Goddamn "private mention" is hard to use safely.

[rusty__shackleford@mastodon.social]

@adamshostack @mattblaze
@iampytest1

My brother

Re: https://mastodon.social/@rusty__shackleford/116067510513433059

[crapaud@mstdn.social]

@adamshostack
I found this out the easy way: someone @'d me in a private DM and I saw the intended-private message. I recommend this over finding out the hard way.

[countablenewt@mastodon.social]

@adamshostack this is one of the major things I’m personally hoping to accomplish through my own app development

I’ve been working a lot on trying to get private mentions to feel less like they’re just posts and more like a typical DM interface

Hopefully as I refine this and share with the public, along with E2EE which is being worked on separately, we can start to have a better experience for them

Because yeah, right now it’s unpleasant

[alice@lgbtqia.space]

@briankrebs I have publicly "privately" mentioned people a couple times—only one of which was about me dreaming of them. But we ended up dating because of it, so 🤷🏼‍♀️ YMMV.

Then I discovered the merits of having no shame, so now I just say everything publicly 😁

@adamshostack

[evan@cosocial.ca]

@adamshostack agreed.