โฒ 447 โผ What are the bad patterns of Reddit to never repeat on Lemmy? (lemm.ee) submitted 3 years ago by sociablefish@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml 540 comments fedilink hide all child comments A few examples include s*x questions on askreddit, "this" comments, nolife powermods, jokes being more frequent than actual answers
[+] spiritedaway@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (4 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [โ] HandwovenConsensus@lemm.ee 4 points 3 years ago I always wondered if they changed it so that the plural isn't pms. permalink fedilink source parent [โ] stilgar@infosec.pub 3 points 3 years ago I have a feeling this one comes from Instagram and that's how it entered the mainstream lexicon. But I find both PM and DM easy to understand. permalink fedilink source parent [โ] Pokethat@lemmy.world 3 points 3 years ago Honestly, it's like Kleenex versus tissue paper. Maybe one is more on brand, but everyone knows exactly what you mean either way. My intuition tells me that a direct message is a message directly to my username inbox, and a private message is basically the same thing but maybe encrypted or something. permalink fedilink source parent [โ] pascal@lemm.ee 1 point 3 years ago Same for me. I always think to PM as private message and DM as dungeon master, and that's it. I accepted the term DM as directed message because in fact there was no such thing as Private Message. permalink fedilink source parent
[โ] HandwovenConsensus@lemm.ee 4 points 3 years ago I always wondered if they changed it so that the plural isn't pms. permalink fedilink source parent
[โ] stilgar@infosec.pub 3 points 3 years ago I have a feeling this one comes from Instagram and that's how it entered the mainstream lexicon. But I find both PM and DM easy to understand. permalink fedilink source parent
[โ] Pokethat@lemmy.world 3 points 3 years ago Honestly, it's like Kleenex versus tissue paper. Maybe one is more on brand, but everyone knows exactly what you mean either way. My intuition tells me that a direct message is a message directly to my username inbox, and a private message is basically the same thing but maybe encrypted or something. permalink fedilink source parent
[โ] pascal@lemm.ee 1 point 3 years ago Same for me. I always think to PM as private message and DM as dungeon master, and that's it. I accepted the term DM as directed message because in fact there was no such thing as Private Message. permalink fedilink source parent