29
Interesting Development from a new alternative link-aggregator platform --- The chat has entered azorius (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by maegul@lemmy.ml to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
4 comments fedilink hide all child comments

cross-posted from: https://azorius.net/p/qG94yLvqfYjf3l14Ty-The-chat-has-entered-azorius

Pushed a big change to enable group chat.

This kinda seems like feature creep, but looking at successful forums, I think many of them have an irc (or a fucking discord) on the side. Or you resort to an adhoc chat post. So I think it's fairly important. It's not very complicated, either.

It's not on by default, and can be enabled on a per group basis.

But does it fedi? Obvi! Well, within reason, and with certain caveats.

It's based on the ChatMessage type, addressed to the group, and federated via Announce/Create/ChatMessage like other group activities. So nothing special.

Honk required a small fix because it wasn't expected chats to be announced. Not sure how other software would react. The fix was pretty simple and obvious, just not something I anticipated. The tricky part is getting addressing right and replying to the group, not only the poster.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] maegul@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

I think it's on version 0.2 or something! It came out pretty recently (like last month or so). So yea, plenty to be done.

That being said, I'm not sure bare-bones roughly-edged platforms are a bad thing at all for the fediverse!

  • For self hosting, a simple and hackable platform can often be preferable just because of how light weight its resource reqiurements are.
  • And the simpler it is, the easier it is for you or others to make it what you want.
  • It's also probably a good place to try out new ideas. With this being an example. Chat has not received much love from any platform really AFAICT. Awesome to see someone addressing it.
this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2023
29 points (100.0% liked)

Fediverse

17868 readers
1 users here now

A community dedicated to fediverse news and discussion.

Fediverse is a portmanteau of "federation" and "universe".

Getting started on Fediverse;

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
deadsuperhero@lemmy.ml
wakest@lemmy.ml