@fribbledom Well, "Publish" might actually be the better option here. Because depending on whether one is sending a Toot to another Mastodon/Pleroma or Friendica server, is quite a difference here. On Mastodon/Pleroma direct messages should only be seen by the recipient. But Friendica has implemented DMs differently. So if one was sending a supposedly "private" message there, the serer would treat it as a regular, public post.
@fribbledom dms on mastodon are terrible. I refuse to use them. Also, since anyone can run a mastodon server they really should implement end-to-end encrypted dms
@fribbledom I always think ofDMs on Mastodon as Toots that only the mentioned people can see. And suddenly the word "Publish" makes sense. And as they are not encrypted but readable by anyone getting acces to them it is a kind of publishing....
@fribbledom This is honestly my biggest criticism of Mastodon and the larger ActivityPub scene. Neither were designed with any kind of real privacy in mind.
@fribbledom I'm personally not a fan of overloading the post UI to handle DMs even if the underlying mechanism is the same. Modal UIs in general kinda suck.
@fribbledom this is where the word "Post" would make sense, because it's like you're nailing a note to a fencepost and waiting for them to pass by.
Um, I mean, mailing them a letter. Yeah, that's the ticket.
It would be nice if @signalapp could hook into ActivityPub somehow to provide robust secure DMs (ideally without revealing phone numbers unless desired to do so).
@fribbledom glad I’m not the only one! Half my DMs, I immediately delete and then redraft just because I had a moment of “crap, did I just toot that publicly?” Which also shows I don’t DM much
I understand, and that part actually makes sense to me. I still think the button should read "Send" instead of "Publish" however, as it's much more appropriate.
I always have to double check I'm really sending a DM, and that little change would eliminate all my confusion.
@fribbledom I agree. There is a bit of a visual cue (on the website--I don't use any apps), but a "send" instead of "[padlock] publish" would be quite nice.
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