element-hq / element-hq/element-web

Starting a room with self fails unhelpfully

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A-DMs O-Occasional S-Minor T-Defect
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Description

### Steps to reproduce

1. + next to "People" to start chat
2. Add some users to DM, including self
3. See an error saying "We couldn't create your DM."

### Outcome

#### What did you expect?
DM is created and me adding myself to it is ignored as I'm creating it

#### What happened instead?
Error message which doesn't tell me what the problem is

![Screenshot from 2021-11-05 14-59-59](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/51663/140531597-150e1a8c-ce11-4daa-a540-90f9ae85ad28.png)

I ran through the steps twice and on one of the two occasions, a room was created.

### URL for webapp

develop.element.io

### Will you send logs?

No

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