Are PMs to other instances not possible?

curiosityLynx@kbin.social to /kbin meta@kbin.social – 4 points –

I just tried sending someone on a lemmy instance a private message (solution to a riddle) and got redirected to https://kbin.social/sub instead.

Is that a bug or just how kbin handles things that are impossible (maybe lemmy doesn't have messages, or PMs between instances doesn't work)

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Someone posted this as an issue, so I’m guessing messaging users on other instances isn’t implemented yet and it’ll eventually get worked on.

I read in one of the kbin discussion threads recently that PMs are a feature in progress, currently low-priority due to the Reddit migration.

I'd be a little hesitant on privacy matters when it comes to private messages. There are a lot of people who might get access to those. With regular messages, there's no illusion of privacy, but with private messages, there is.

Today, there's no mechanism for end-to-end encryption or the like.