A few examples include s*x questions on askreddit, “this” comments, nolife powermods, jokes being more frequent than actual answers
3 points
Honestly, it’s like Kleenex versus tissue paper. Maybe one is more on brand, but everyone knows exactly what you mean either way.
My intuition tells me that a direct message is a message directly to my username inbox, and a private message is basically the same thing but maybe encrypted or something.