: opens can of fediverse worms, shouts into it : can someone explain the difference between mentions and DMs to me bc i have things in my DMs tab on tusky that look like mentions to me
@oddletters they're technosocial homonyms. The difference is entirely contextual.
@aramsinn how does something become a DM and not a mention? like your reply is a mention for some reason, even tho other replies in other threaded conversations seem to be DMs
@oddletters maybe if it's not part of a thread and it starts with an @ ..?
@oddletters of course that wouldn't explain why my reply to you was a DM. I dunno technology is weird
