Wondering what the Bluesky team has in mind for private messaging, if anything. Mastodon’s DMs have always felt awkward to me, both the user experience (hard to distinguish public and private posts) and the technical bits (any admin can read your messages).

@manton It seems to me that in terms of user safety, private messaging should be conducted entirely elsewhere that has a competency in it. I've long had to remind people that Twitter's messaging is just tweets that are longer and are not visible to other users - but are available to any client you give permission to. And to Twitter.

@manton Replies and DMs should have the aviator on the right or the message to distinguish it and to make it more of a thread/convo. I’m just tossing out wild ideas.

@Gte Agreed. I didn’t realize that Wavelength used an open-ish protocol.

@manton @Gte the problem is of course ease-of-use. There needs to be a simple way to link people’s “dm” messaging services in to any social media service.

Is there an open web solution?

Something like possumid.com which can also verify the accounts are owned by the same person?

https://possumid.com/gh/briancordanyoung

@manton People love DMs so it needs to be as seamless as it can be. I hope we don’t let perfect get in the way