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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth replying to this from @elliotjaystocks

@elliotjaystocks Oh yeah! Heady times!

It seems that these are indeed private (not to be confused with secure), but the UI on different instances do not all make this equally clear.

And @-ing a user in your DM will add them to the discussion from that post onwards.

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You can explore them here and follow me on Mastodon instead of Twitter where I'm not currently active.