I don't think that "live chat" is fitting for Lemmy. It is an aggregator in the first place. There are already other FOSS services for live chatting, such as Matrix. IMHO, adding such a feature to Lemmy would be out of the scope of the project and probably result in a bad and dysfunctional implementation.

[–] BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

I agree that lemmy shouldn't take it on itself, but I do think deeper integration into other foss systems is not a bad plan. Being able to integrate a matrix instance directly with a lemmy instance would be fancy and I think exploring stuff like that further could be the key to finally getting us beyond just seeking parity with reddit.

[–] rglullis@communick.news 2 points 3 weeks ago

What sort of integration would you have in mind that is not achievable with a simple web link?

FWIW: communick does offer some form of integration. Members get one account on Lemmy, Matrix and Mastodon, and they can login with the same username/password on all of them.

[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 weeks ago

If Lemmy were to integrate with Matrix the storage costs would explode exponentially, the two systems are notoriously heavy! (Lemmy is consistently the only service that fills more than 1 GB of storage in my browser and refuses to clean up).

XMPP is the true inheritor of IRC when it comes to standard, federated, self-hostable chat / messaging.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 weeks ago

Perhaps it would better fit MBin.

If integrate Lemmy with something, that should be Mastodon first.

[–] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago

if you fill in your Matrix handle in your profile settings and so does the person who wants to contact you, the private messages between the two of you will use Matrix.