• CatZoomies@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    Even PMs were never private though. I used to run forum software (both Invision Power Board and phpBB 20 years ago in the early 2000s) on my web site and PMs were records in the MySQL DB. I never did, but I could read anyone’s PMs if I wanted to.