Comment by trashb
20 hours ago
In that case don't use Tiktok dm's to discuss your sexuality. I think it is strange that people feel like they have to be able to talk on sensitive topics over every interface they can get their hands on.
Similarly in "traditional" media you may not want to discuss such private conversation on a radio broadcast. Perhaps you would rather discuss it on the phone or over snail mail as there is more of an expectation of privacy on those medium.
Right, but it currently isn't a sensitive topic - homosexuality is, as of 2026, broadly legal in the United States. That's a relatively new state of affairs, historically speaking, and one which Afghanistan shared as recently as 2021.
I'm commenting in the context of the conversation, not in a vacuum. You could just as (in fact, much more) easily say that children shouldn't be on apps with private messaging enabled. That would help a lot more, and then we could keep e2ee.
> there is more of an expectation of privacy on those medium
What does the "p" in "pm" stand for?
excuse me, I confused "Private messages" (pm) for "Direct messages" (dm).
I will update above
I don't think you confused anything, except for the terminology the platform uses. There is an obvious expectation of privacy when sending direct messages!
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it stands for "not a public timeline post"
It should be obvious from how contrived your wording is that nobody thinks of them this way.