Prentiss Riddle 🎛Mastodon is actively user-hostile, exhibit #24837: even in the discussion of a bug report, no one can give a straight answer about what "privately mention" means, and whether or not it is analogous to a Direct Message on other platforms.
"Privately mention" is a confusing name without further elaboration · Issue #24837 · mastodon/mastodon
Steps to reproduce the problem I checked how to send someone a private message and clicked the "..." menu button on their profile for that purpose I only found "Privately mention ", and that sounds...