Hahaha! And now they show tiny! I had to reload the page. So, I see the problem on iOS and macOS Safari too. I have no other browser to test with, I exclusively use Safari.

The tiny avatars, as expected (because they showed normal to you too @prologic), do not show under macOS’s Safari, but they do show on iOS’s Safari. It truly is a puzzle.

@prologic this was for IRC, but pong! 🏓

@eapl.me This is one of my concerns too. The moment you post publicly ciphertext, you open yourself up for future attacks on the ciphertext, which you really want to avoid if you can. If you have a read of the Salty.im Spec you'll note we went to great lengths to protect the user's privacy as well as their identity and make it incredibly hard to guess at inboxes. It's still a WIP, but I'd love to see it progressed even further -- I truly feel strongly about a purely decentralised messaging ecosystem 👌

my main itch with the DMs extensions is that these messages are intended to be private, not public information. That's why other extensions make sense, but DMs are another kind of feature. TwiXter, Mastodon, FB and some other services usually hide the DMs in another section, so they are not mixed with the public timeline.

I find the DM topic interesting, I even made an indie experiment for a centralized messaging system here https://github.com/eapl-gemugami/owl. Although, as I've said a few times here, I'm not particularly interested in supporting it on microblogging, as I don't use it that much. In the rare case I've used them, I don't have to manage public and private keys, and finally none of my acquaintances use encrypted email. Nothing personal against anyone, and although I like to debate and even fight, it's not the case here. This proposal is the only one allowing DMs on twtxt, and if the community wants it, I'll support it, with my personal input, of course.

A good approach I could find with a good compromise between compatibility with current clients and keeping these messages private is 'hiding' the DMs in comments. For example: `# 2025-04-13T11:02:12+02:00

@bender ping! 🏓

@bender Close enough 🤣

@prologic earliest I have of you:

@bender Sadly my earlier Twt back in ~2020 is now gone from at least this pod's cache 🤣 -- It might still exist in other pods though? 🤔 It does! https://txt.sour.is/twt/o6dsrga

I think I would encourage anyone in this community is to care less about supporting "legacy clients" and focus more on value-add whilst balancing the burden of client authors -- which have very precious little "spare time" 🤣