Masto meta; urgent
The Direct Messages on Masto are broken in a way that is potentially dangerous
It has happened more than once that someone has tried to contact me in my admin persona about another user using a "Direct" privacy toot
And they try to talk *about* the other person
But Masto helpfully auto-fills their name, so now they're *in* the conversation
And suddenly someone who absolutely should NOT be in a private conversation is added by accident
Masto meta; urgent
@bgcarlisle Well, to be fair, since this was repeated over and over: Mastodon is not and will never be a communication tool. It is a publication platform, where content is mostly meant to be public.
For secure and private communication, proper tools exist that offer fine grain recipient filtering, e2ee, etc. for instance: email, Matrix, XMPP.
Masto meta; urgent
@kaiyou the part where you were like "I see that you're describing what you think is a problem but here's why it shouldn't be a problem" rather than just acknowledging that it is, in fact, a problem
Masto meta; urgent
@SallyStrange Sorry it did sound that way then. I acknowledge it is a problem, and can become pretty hurtful, only it is mostly a problem of software advertising features it is not meant to support in the first place. I do not think the private message ux itself is problematic, more that any feature in mastodon (substitute most of current fediverse software) is branded as "private" or "direct" messaging at all.
Masto meta; urgent
@SallyStrange Didn't mean to be, which part did sound offensive?