I think the biggest problem is messaging people outside of the Piefed instance to ask them. If you were messaging users just on piefed.social to mark them correctly it’d be one thing, since they agreed to how Piefed works, but a DM from a random account on a random instance (Many of us know you by name, but it’s likely many more do not) does seem spammy.
I’d agree with others that just replying back is better, not having to click a link. Don’t have a solution for the above though.
I think the biggest problem is messaging people outside of the Piefed instance to ask them. If you were messaging users just on piefed.social to mark them correctly it’d be one thing, since they agreed to how Piefed works, but a DM from a random account on a random instance (Many of us know you by name, but it’s likely many more do not) does seem spammy.
I’d agree with others that just replying back is better, not having to click a link. Don’t have a solution for the above though.