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Matt Blaze | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 There's a vocal minority of folks here who get really pissed off when you mention this (or any other bug or misfeature on this platform). They think users who get tripped up by violations of the "rule of least surprise" like this are the problem, and that privacy and security shouldn't be made safe by design. Screw those people.
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Matt Blaze | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Basically, the PM/DM mechanism is a "missing stair" of usability design. It's possible for experts - experienced users - to avoid being tripped up by it, because they've already made their mistakes or have been warned. But that doesn't help newer, less sophisticated, or less experienced users.

It's almost like hazing.

Just make it work the way people expect, please.
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Yohan Yukiya Sese-Cuneta ♾️ 사요한 🦩 | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 It was reported that the amazing developer of #Friendica, #Hubzilla, and #Streams (to mention a few), is importing his encrypted PM/DM mechanism over to ActivityPub's latest round of discussion and development. It was something that was supposed(?) to be in AP in the beginning, but …

I'm not sure how real it is (the work), I haven't been paying attention after my own Friendica and Hubzilla instances went offline (due to lack of time to manage it). So, hopefully it is and we'll finally see encrypted PM/DM in #ActivityPub. Then we'll see if that software you mentioned is W3C compliant once the next version of AP comes out. Or, they'll choose to not to and start wrecking the #Fediverse in the process (*cough*EEE*cough*).

(P.S. He was the first who developed true account #portability years before #ATproto started to "champion" it. I think it's also being posted into the next AP version(?).)