Matt BlazeMay 4, 2023

Spam (like the torrent of cryptoscamspam lots of people got this morning) has been very rare for me here (and dealt with quickly), but I've noticed that almost all of the spam I've gotten has been via Mastodon's DM feature.

I really wish there was a way to turn DMs off or at least restrict them to people I follow. Control over incoming DMs was a thing Twitter did better than here.

Show threadMatt BlazeMay 4, 2023
Please stop telling me about the "block DMs from people you don't follow" checkbox. I know about that. It doesn't work properly. It results in people THINKING they've sent you a message that you never actually see.
Show threadMatt BlazeMay 4, 2023
Because this is Mastodon, I'm now getting people lecturing me on why this obviously broken behavior is "correct".
Show threadMatt BlazeMay 4, 2023

Another way DMs are hopelessly broken: if your handle is mentioned anywhere in a DM, you get a copy.

Yes, I understand why (technically) it might work that way. That doesn't mean it's not broken.

DMs here are a dumpster fire of buggy behavior and non-intuitive semantics.

Show threadThommyMay 4, 2023
@mattblaze since there are already good chat protocols out there, I would have hoped that Mastodon, et al. would use matrix or ircv3 since activitypub isn't really designed for dms anyway.
Show threadAsbjørn Ulsberg
@thomasjwebb @mattblaze I agree. It’s better to just not try to do DMs over ActivityPub than what’s currently implemented, because what’s currently implemented is broken.
May 7, 2023 at 6:25pmWeb