"Private Mentions are their own strange beast, as it’s sometimes unclear who is actually privy to the conversation. More than a few times, I’ve seen people get accidentally mentioned in private gossip that was about them, because people thought Private Mentions worked like Twitter DMs. They don’t. It’s horribly awkward. Don’t do that."
Sean Tilley (nprofile…zcnt)
https://wedistribute.org/2023/11/debunking-the-top-10-myths-about-mastodon/#h-myth-9-mastodon-is-the-same-thing-as-the-fediverse
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Strypey /
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2024-11-20 23:07:15
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npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65Published at
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