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submitted 2 weeks ago by Mr_Stellar@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

New to this, starting to understand how it works sort of. I am looking for a place to chat to people, are live text chat room communities a thing here? Or do people chat through comments on posts? Not quite understanding that aspect yet.

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[-] Carvex@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Mostly we just shitpost at each other, but every once in a while we’ve been known to have intelligent conversation.

[-] Mr_Stellar@lemm.ee 0 points 2 weeks ago

Haha, I’ve seen this word a lot, please define shitpost for me, it is pretty self explanatory but is there an official meaning for it?

[-] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

You can message people

The "how" depends on your client

[-] FrostyTrichs@crazypeople.online 2 points 1 week ago

We use SimpleX chat. It isn't as popular as Matrix but the security is better and we run into fewer traffickers there than on Matrix.

[-] Mr_Stellar@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

Thanks, does it have a decent variety of groups?

[-] FrostyTrichs@crazypeople.online 2 points 1 week ago

It does but not all of them are out in the open to discover. Part of how SXC works is based around not being discoverable if you don't want to be.

There is an official directory with quite a few rooms and some unofficial ones for things that aren't allowed on the main directory for whatever reason. I would say the overall size is much smaller than even Matrix but there are some pretty large and active rooms that cover a fair bit of tech and general topics. It's not perfect but I prefer it to Matrix.

[-] Mr_Stellar@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

Thanks for the suggestion, it’s the tech stuff I’m trying to avoid , seems like ever room on matrix is heavily to lightly related to tech. Which is over my head mostly. I m just looking for a semi constant stream of decent chats or personalities.

[-] FrostyTrichs@crazypeople.online 2 points 1 week ago

There's plenty of stuff that isn't tech there but I don't use it much for general browsing and chat. We host rooms on SXC for some of our communities and the instance itself as a means of communication off Lemmy. Most of my time is spent in those rooms interacting with people I've met on Lemmy or random people who find our rooms on SXC lol.

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

You want Matrix if you want fediverse live chat.

A "live" conversation can happen here (or any forum, really), but it's not super common.

[-] nsrxn@scribe.disroot.org 1 points 2 weeks ago
[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

No live chat, there is Matrix for that. There is !casualconversation@lemmy.world if you want to chat with people via comments.

[-] Blaze@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago

!casualconversation@lemm.ee

[-] Mr_Stellar@lemm.ee 0 points 2 weeks ago
[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

It's kinda like discord. But you can run it on your own hardware. Self hosted as we call it. https://matrix.org/

[-] Mr_Stellar@lemm.ee 0 points 2 weeks ago

Ok I see, so what we are doing now is basically what Lemmy is about. Someone makes a post about a subject and people comment on the main post or reply to someone else’s comment on the main post. Is that about it or is there more to it?

[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

That's about it. That is the core of digg and Reddit Lemmy is doing.

I found no value is live threads, Reddit live, or Reddit chat so I am happy this aren't here.

[-] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 2 weeks ago

speaking of..... anyone hear from Nicole recently?

[-] Sandbar_Trekker@lemmy.today 1 points 2 weeks ago

Last I heard from her was back around the beginning of April.

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