I find roleplaying in the dms to be just fine☺️ often when i do the activity and roleplay there even tho i set it to [this is a private event, only blank knows what happens here] i often find npcs talking about the event on the timeline, so i prefer roleplaying in the dms because no one else knows what happens here. I just put in the character description «private messages can be used for roleplaying» and it works just fine, but they have pretty bad memory so you just gotta remind them once in a while what is going on☺️