I really dislike how Mastodon handles direct messages, as if there were just any other post with replies.
Twitter does this much better. Direct messages are grouped by person, as they should be. On Mastodon, though, it’s difficult to see your message history with a person, and it’s always unclear whether you should reply to an old, possibly unrelated direct message or start a new “thread”, which is more difficult than it should be.
Some other Fedi software pretend to do the above but within any server handling, like ELK, that seems worse as that makes it seem more safe than it actually is. Any wrong mention...
For Mastodon specifically, I believe they don't want to create a separate UI until E2E is also finished.
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