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.
It looks very interesting but that interface needs a lot of work :/
I think it’s on version
0.2or 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.
Pixelfed is also adding something like that, and Pleroma also had it for a long time. But personally I think it is a bad idea to re-invent the wheel badly on protocols that were not designed for chat.
It is not very difficult to link a fediverse instance to a XMPP server and get proper high performance and e2e encrypted secure chat with it.
Fair enough. Still, given that each platform seems to have some DM/chat interface that is probably misleading to most users in how much it isn’t really that at all … having something more chat like might be better than nothing … unless it’s just removed?
