does lemmy have a chat and dms like reddit?
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Wait, what? It’s just the sender and receiver’s instances that can read the message; it’s not just any server right?
You are right.
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The fact that a message is addressed to a single person does not mean that it’s only sent to that person. In theory, anyone following you will receive a notification about the message.
This is wrong, Lemmy doesnt send private messages to followers.
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like can i send a dm to someone and talk to them here?
It has DMs, it does not have live chat. For federated live chat, there’s Matrix.
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Can someone send me a dm so I can verify it works?
You’re about to get so many beans
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This is wrong, Lemmy doesnt send private messages to followers.
I wasn’t talking about the specifics of Lemmy, but ActivityPub in general. You can not guarantee that just because a message has been addressed to a single actor that only that actor will see it.
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I wasn’t talking about the specifics of Lemmy, but ActivityPub in general. You can not guarantee that just because a message has been addressed to a single actor that only that actor will see it.
If any Activitypub platform sends messages to an actor which they arent addressed to, thats clearly a bug.
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If any Activitypub platform sends messages to an actor which they arent addressed to, thats clearly a bug.
In the most practical cases, yes. But in theory, there is nothing about the protocol that says that message addressing implies message visibility, or even access control.
Also, be careful of taking your assumptions and treating them as universal truths. One day somebody could build an IRC-like system on ActivityPub and decides to treat a “ChatMessage” object as public objects which may or may not be addressed at a single participant. There would be no “bug” if the server picks up the object, relays to others, or even indexes it and makes it searchable.
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It has DMs, it does not have live chat. For federated live chat, there’s Matrix.
Made me curious, are there any lemmy instances with embedded matrix protocol? Does it even work like that?
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Made me curious, are there any lemmy instances with embedded matrix protocol? Does it even work like that?
It’s a different protocol altogether so unless someone went out of their way to build a bridge between Lemmy and Matrix, probably not.
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It’s a different protocol altogether so unless someone went out of their way to build a bridge between Lemmy and Matrix, probably not.
Gotcha, thatd be super neat
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