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How do you allow people to connect one-on-one, for things like coordinating coffee chats and free item pickups, without creating a vector for spam and abuse?: In response to community member requests, our team came up with an elegant solution: Direct Replies

Roundabout

@roundabout.town

With Direct Replies, community members can choose to respond to a post or thread without it being visible to everyone in the space. As more and more people try out Roundabout, the team continues to evolve the platform.🔧 Read about Direct Replies in the latest @newpublic.org newsletter:

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8/10/26, 4:48 pm0 reposts8 likes

Tessa Brown

@tessa.germnetwork.com

It’s really nice how this lightens the burden on DMs and puts all the responses in one field for viewing