A few examples include s*x questions on askreddit, “this” comments, nolife powermods, jokes being more frequent than actual answers

    • stilgar [he/him] @infosec.pub
      3·
      1 year 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.

    • Pokethat@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 year 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.

    • pascal@lemm.ee
      1·
      1 year 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.