#directmessaging — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #directmessaging, aggregated by home.social.
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PC Mag: Mastodon Plans End-to-End Encryption for Private Messages. “Decentralized social media platform Mastodon plans on adopting its own end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for private messages. Mastodon announced the upcoming feature in a blog post about receiving €614,000 ($724,000) from the Sovereign Tech Fund, an effort backed by the German government to support open-source software.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/17/pc-mag-mastodon-plans-end-to-end-encryption-for-private-messages/ -
Mashable: TikTok says it’s ‘investigating’ its Epstein problem . “TikTok claims it isn’t deliberately censoring the name ‘Epstein’ in direct messages, but says it’s investigating a bug that stops some DMs that include the name from being sent.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/29/mashable-tiktok-says-its-investigating-its-epstein-problem/ -
Tubefilter: YouTube responds to “top feature request” by testing direct messages. “In Ireland and Poland, users above the age of 18 now have the ability to ‘share videos you love…and have conversations about them directly on the YouTube mobile app.'”
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ICYMI: Threads launches direct messaging with safety restrictions: Threads introduces direct messaging and visual highlighting system as platform reaches third year milestone. https://ppc.land/threads-launches-direct-messaging-with-safety-restrictions/ #Threads #DirectMessaging #SocialMedia #SafetyFirst #MessagingApp
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Engadget: X is ‘pausing’ encrypted DMs. “X users can no longer send encrypted messages on the platform. The company said in an update that it’s ‘pausing’ the feature ‘while we work on making some improvements.’ Users will still be able to view previously-sent encrypted chats, but won’t be able to send any new ones.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/30/engadget-x-is-pausing-encrypted-dms/
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Digital Trends: X will purge DMs to give birth to its own messaging platform. “X, formerly Twitter, is seeking to replace the DMs section with a new messaging platform called XChat. Zack Warunek, software engineer at X, hinted that the company will be deleting the DMs section on Wednesday in a response to a user who had difficulties seeing user data on the messages they sent and received for […]