Matt BlazeA feature I'd like is the ability to turn DMs off here (in a way that alerts people trying to send them to me). Aside from the inherent insecurity, they're hard to see in some apps/UIs, and I often miss seeing them, as do, I presume, many others. Plus it's yet another thing to check, like an unwanted voicemail box.
Cue the "why DMs here are perfect" and "you shouldn't complain, you're too new here" crowd.
honk honk I'm a truck *brrrrr*@mattblaze I mean, you could try asking how people handle that issue, instead of just declaring, in your wisdom, that you know it's bad.
But that would be the kind and community-centered version, and fuck that entire concept, right?
@notafurry Let me explain something: fuck off.
Lesley Carhart 
@mattblaze never change
@hacks4pancakes Can't promise that. But if I do change, it won't be because of being scolded by some random Internet busybody.
Vegaskid@mattblaze @notafurry those that can, teach 🤣
Oh, look, the fanboy brigades are arriving. How cute.
Jesse Harris@elforesto @vegaskid @mattblaze
Your mom told you you're clever, right?
@mattblaze Oh, good, you *did* understand.
David Penfold 
@notafurry @mattblaze He doesn't like it *for his needs* as is his right. It's not some attempt to undermine Mastodon.
@davep @mattblaze You know what's also peoples' right? To read the fucking room and notice that all the people who were willing to engage and help people find their way in this new environment before are blocking, muting, and defederating them now. Maybe realize that, hey, the aggressive and combative tone of the hellsite they abandoned isn't appropriate here, and half the "problems" they're whining about are self-inflicted or misinterpretations.
Or, you know. They can not, and be ignored.
Nope. The original post, sure, that could be read that way, though he appears to not get how those work, and learning how it *does* work would probably help him find fixes for his issue.
"Cue the "why DMs here are perfect" and "you shouldn't complain, you're too new here" crowd."
That? Asshole-ry at the people who've burned out on trying to help people who refuse to be helped while they destroy the place they've fled to.
Sure, I didn't *have* to reply in kind. *shrug*
Mᴀʀᴋ VᴀɴᴅᴇWᴇᴛᴛᴇʀɪɴɢ@notafurry @mattblaze Matt began his post with "A feature I'd like is..." If you'd like to argue that he's mistaken, you could probably do that, but your attempt at tone policing seems misplaced. I have found DMs to be useful but in most cases prefer communication in public. DMs do not scale, and are perhaps less useful when one is ... controversial... and targeted by large numbers of belligerent people.
@notafurry @mattblaze Given that he was right, I'm not sure what your point is?
I don't believe I said anything about the DM system or his tenure here, either.
You want to go for three stupid comments in a row?
@notafurry @mattblaze *Recounts* I think you've already had three.
Gary William Flake@notafurry How do you handle this issue? I feel much the same as @mattblaze but it sounds like you have some experience to share. What would you recommend as the preferred way to let people know that I am unlikely to respond to DM's here?
Point of order: I don't care about his feelings on DMs; he doesn't understand them and that's obvious, but whatever. I care, and responded, only to his asshattery.
But as to how most people handle them here, turn them off for people you don't follow (it's in preferences) and then set them to show up in their own column. Simple and straightforward, you won't miss seeing them, you don't have to check anything extra.
Don't use them for sensitive conversations. Done.
@notafurry Thanks.
Additional details for those interested: the "columns" mentioned are only visible if you toggle the "Enable advanced web interface" option w/in preferences (and save before doing anything else).
Go back to home and you'll then see the columns.
In the end, I chose not to have an empty DM column just to inspect that I have no DMs that I don't want to read anyway. But I do prefer the columns, so it was worth the effort.
Quinn Norton@mattblaze OMG turning off DMs sounds lovely!
The only exception is the few times I've wanted to move the conversation offline but that's been like 4 times in 8 years or something.
The only exception is the few times I've wanted to move the conversation offline but that's been like 4 times in 8 years or something.