Is there a way to DM a user here? I don’t see it anywhere in my client (jerboa)
In the desktop web site, if I click on your user id, there’s a “Send Message” button on the top right area of your profile page.
I just tried sending you something with it.
No idea about clients tho.
Jerboa doesn’t support DMs yet, it’s very new. Also, you should know that Lemmy’s DMs are not at all secure, and federated just like public posts, meaning admins can read them if they choose to. I’d suggest you use something like Matrix (sometimes known as Element) to DM people. :)
as an abstract thought… I have not seen a technical reason prohibiting federated e2e encrypted messages at some point in the future. so, when development can shift immediate focus from the “must-haves” and toward the “nice-to-haves”, we may well get secure, private, on-network DMs.
I know that soatok made a proposal for this a while ago, but I don’t know if it went anywhere.
thanks for this link! i had not seen it before.
In most cases I’d just want to DM somebody to ask about something on Lemmy (i.e. message a mod) so nothing that I’d be too worried about privacy with, but yeah I kinda assumed they’re not super secure.
Then again I doubt Reddit etc were either
You can click on a user name to send a private message, but it doesn’t save the sent private message anywhere. You get replies to your inbox, but no copy of the sent message can be viewed.
Lemmy lacks the ability to deal with private messages in a dedicated space which is something that’s lacking I think. It lumps private messages in with community messages, but I think that’s confusing. I suppose I could live with it, but the failure to show sent private messages anywhere is a problem for me.
