I mean… I come from the forum scene and they were always called PMs, as in Private Message. What in the hell does DM stand for and when did things change from people calling them PMs to DMs.
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DM means Dungeon Master to me, so I go with PM, if I don’t just say message.
Twitter used Direct Message instead of Private Message because they needed to establish that there is legally no understanding of privacy for DMs, because Twitter will surrender the contents of DMs to law enforcement / government / data collection. Fediverse should also use DM because there is again no guarantee of privacy (and you do not expect there to be).
Direct Message.
I’ve only really seen “DM” used this way with Twitter, so I have to assume that’s what Twitter calls private messages.
DM is direct message and seems to have started around the same time things culturally shifted away from forums and boards more toward social media.
And now people don’t even understand me, like I wrote “I’ll PM you” and they said “What 🤨” 🤦.
Guess I’ll have to shift from using PM to DM… though it seems completely illogical to me, but hey, that’s life I guess.
“I’ll Prime Minister you”
“I’ll prime meridian you”
“I’ll post mortem you”
“I’ll prima dona you”
“I’ll Pringle Mingle you”
“I’ll dungeon master you”
“I’ll deathmatch you”
That last one was probably used at some point in time though…
Gonna steal “pringle mingle”, sounds like a great insult lol
It’s what some people call a /whisper
Yeah of pst
