Oh wow, the DM experience (at least on Mastodon iOS and Toot!) is somewhere between scary and horrifying. Makes it very hard to tell the difference between a public reply and a DM, drags people you mention into the chat.
@matthew_d_green I wonder how many people understand that DMs are visible to server admins. The docs mentions this and asks people not to treat this as Signal for sensitive info, and that's great (https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/posting/). But it should also be made clearer in the DM UI as well.