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[โ€“] Pokethat 3 points 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.