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submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 7 months ago (5 children)

"DM" still feels so wrong. How the heck did that take over from "PM"

[–] [email protected] 55 points 7 months ago (1 children)

direct messages aren’t private :)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

Oooh

[–] [email protected] 43 points 7 months ago

Private Message (PM) was common until Twitter and Instagram came around, where the platforms did not want to get in trouble for implying that your messages were "Private" in any way, so the renamed them "Direct Messages". Reddit and Lemmy make user-to-user messages easily accessible by admins, so DM is appropriate here.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

it's just more... direct

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

+1 for pm

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

I think it started when Twitter became popular? That's just the term they used. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong