Strypey<p>There are different approaches to private social messaging, even within the fediverse. Diaspora was one of the earlier examples, allowing users to give access permission to only one person (like a <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/dm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DM</span></a>), some people (like group DMs), a group of people defined by the posting user ("aspects"), or everyone (public). <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/friendica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Friendica</span></a> does private messages with <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/dfrn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DFRN</span></a> and Dispora, and maybe now AP? Hubzilla and now Zap have been doing federation of private content with Zot, later AP. Consensus is emerging.</p>