Hey there, thanks for the kind words!
You're right - at this time, there's no way to create or reply to private messages just yet. This is something I want to introduce but I'm just currently backed up with other (not as fun but arguably more important) tasks like preparing Thunder for the upcoming Lemmy API changes and app stability/performance improvements ๐
Given that this has been requested a few times already, I might be able to implement a quick version of this just to have it as an option!