• Nukul4r@feddit.org
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    9 days ago

    Not trying to defend Reddit here, but what’s the functional difference between a chat and DMs? How is one better or worse than the other?

    • SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today
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      9 days ago

      DMs are exactly what you expect, like private email. Every service has some form of this.

      Reddit chat is real time, designed for shorter messages and real-time communication.

      The other difference is that everybody uses Reddit DMs and nobody uses Reddit chat. I have my chat turned off as do most others that I talk to.

      So this is yet again another example of Reddit management not reading the room and forcing the use of a system people generally don’t want.

    • starman2112@sh.itjust.works
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      9 days ago

      For me, it’s that the app I use does not have the chat feature. I’m 99% certain this is just an attempt to push out the revanced users

      • viking@infosec.pub
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        8 days ago

        Chat is only available in the official client, the implementation is closed source. So yeah most likely that.