A direct message answers in the form its recipient writes in

Lemmy 0.19 (most of the threadiverse) and Mbin take a private message only
as a ChatMessage and refuse a direct Note. A direct message to one account
elsewhere that writes to us as ChatMessages now goes out as one: to it
alone, without a mention in its text, kept on the post (Post.AsChatMessage)
so the served copy and an edit match. No software name decides it.

Live against Lemmy 0.19: alice's answer to lemmyuser's private message and
another persona's message to lemmyuser arrive (29 checks). A first message
to an account that never wrote to anyone here is still a Note, which they
refuse; G-0008 keeps that open for the owner.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LsXgEaXee4GCU1hwYgPJXw

docs/ROADMAP.md

@@ -72,8 +72,9 @@ Written 2026-10-01 from the original 2023 code, the decePubClient UI, a federati
   - wave 2, under way: PieFed, Mbin, NodeBB and Lemmy 0.19 in the pasture with scenarios (2026-10-05). What they showed and was fixed: the
     instance actor answers at the server's root, where PieFed looks for the inbox it announces to; a community's removal
     of a post on its own server is believed at once; a followed group's post its own server sends without announcing
-    it is kept, and a bare `Lock` from the post's server is taken (Mbin). Open: direct messages to Lemmy 0.19 and Mbin,
-    which take them only as `ChatMessage` (G-0008, waits for the owner).
+    it is kept, and a bare `Lock` from the post's server is taken (Mbin). A direct message to someone who writes to us as
+    `ChatMessage`s goes out as one (Lemmy 0.19, Mbin). Open: a first message to such an account (G-0008, waits for the
+    owner).
 - [ ] P7 Threads, communities, moderation, the social graph
 - [ ] P8 Signatures, discovery, the long tail
 - [x] P9 Reading at volume (owner decision 2026-10-04, back from "Cut"): lists, server-side filters, scheduled posts,