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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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[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (13 children)

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

[–] Mr_Stellar@lemm.ee 8 points 3 days ago (7 children)
[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (4 children)

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 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Ok, I’m not that technical but I’ll do some reading.

[–] fahfahfahfah@lemmy.billiam.net 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You don’t have to run it yourself, you can just create an account on an existing server of your choosing, just like Lemmy.

[–] Mr_Stellar@lemm.ee 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Aha! This is useful information I appreciate it

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

Critically, you can make your account on ANY one matrix server and then you will be able to talk on all of them.

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