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.

@manton I hate autocorrect… sorry

@manton Like you were just saying I think these companies should get out of the custom DM business. Ideally I’d like to see them adopt the Signal protocol which has proven to be secure and also used by Wavelength. The functionality is important but the custom implementations are sort of dodgy and users don’t know what to expect.

@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

@BrianCordanYoung @manton Agreed. As with many things identity is tricky. I’m not a big fan of using phone numbers, though I understand why it is done and they do remain secret.

@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