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chat.piefed.social is live - join us on Zulip! (chat.piefed.social)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by rimu@piefed.social to c/piefed_meta@piefed.social
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PieFed has a chat room now, at https://chat.piefed.social/

We're using Zulip for this, which is an interesting combination of forum / chat room with strong support for threaded discussions.

You can use your piefed.social login with chat.piefed.social, BUT you need to use your email address instead of your user name. Use the same password.

The login details used by chat.piefed.social are synced with piefed.social when you log in to piefed.social or when you set a new password in your settings so if you haven't done either of those recently then log out of piefed.social and log back in.

You can also just make an account at https://chat.piefed.social/register/ if you don't have a piefed.social account.

This chat.piefed.social does not replace our Matrix rooms, it is an additional option for those who don't use Matrix.

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[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 7 points 1 month ago

Great news!

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I realize there aren't a lot of great options in this area but Zulip is confusing as fuck.

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What do you find confusing?

[–] Bonus@piefed.social 1 points 3 weeks ago

as fuck

[–] mintiefresh@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

Wow. This is such an interesting idea. Very cool!

[–] TheImpressiveX@piefed.social 4 points 1 month ago

Chat rooms sound intriguing. I'd love to try it out.

[–] veganpizza69@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

is piefed social down?

[–] rimu@piefed.social 3 points 3 weeks ago

It was.

I believe I've found the root cause and fixed it but we'll see.

[–] ademir@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I think the fediverse should look for XMPP for chat solution. It is what comes closest to its philosophy

[–] Blaze@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is there any client for XMPP that support threads (https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0201.html)?

Last time I checked I couldn't find any

[–] ademir@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Desktop? For mobile I think Conversations has that feature, the one I use is a fork and it supports threads, although not as good as Discord IMO

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 1 points 3 weeks ago

Desktop indeed

[–] rimu@piefed.social 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I agree.

I tried to create a XMPP server, twice. I failed once but one of them I got running but then I found it hard to get a decent desktop app which connected to it. By the end of the experiment I could see why XMPP didn't take off.

[–] ademir@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 3 weeks ago

I understand you

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

This is interesting to me as I have been to lazy to do much other fediverse things like matrix mainly because I have to make another account. I think being able to connect to other services with another fediverse login would go a long way to get other aspects become more popular. Like how google and microsoft and facebook and such let you login to stuff with their system.

[–] xnx@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

i dont understand why we would want to splinter the community in seperate software? Why not just have a chatroom style thread so the data etc is still indexed by search engines and on piefed