And yeah I don't think it should be complicated why Cohost has no DM system... it's a huge moderation burden, hell it's an extra regulatory burden, I think, especially if you did it in a reasonably secure way (as, I think, users would expect) where your DMs aren't just plaintext visible to the site's admins. Cohost is made by like four people. C'mon do the math.
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in reply to @bruno's post:
i dont' actually want Yet Another Chat Software. except for the one that i'm coding,,
Also, the State of Louisiana would probably force them to collect my ID if they put in DMs.
The fact that so much information (useful technical information about modern games and other computer programs, for example) is trapped on discord servers these days is terrible for preservation; the siterunners clearly want us to talk in public unless there are real reasons to resort to direct messages through other services, and I think there are ways in which that's good, actually.