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Kelly@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoAmazing write up!
Likewise, ‘pm’ (private message) became ‘dm’ (direct message).
I’m pretty sure Discord is entirely responsible for that.
They started calling private chats ‘direct messages’ even though basically every forum or what have you up till Discord called them ‘private chats’ or ‘private messages’.
Twitter was calling them DMs in 2013, this was probably influencing the language while Discord was being designed ahead of its 2015 launch.
They started calling them Direct Messages since they aren’t actually “private.” It was about false advertising, it’s not actually a private message, it isn’t encrypted.
No one wanted a court case thrown at them where “private messages” were supposed to be private. They took private out of the name to protect themselves legally since there is nothing private about a direct message.
sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Ah!
I did not know that, as I have always despised, and never used Twitter.