I want to suggest adding a feature that lets user post on their profile rather than communities
Also i is live chat possible here in future?
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.
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.
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.
Perhaps it would better fit MBin.
If integrate Lemmy with something, that should be Mastodon first.
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.
I think mbin has microblogging and or profile posts. That’ll get you part way to where you’re going. And you can still subscribe to lemmy (“threadiverse”) communities.
I think there might be some unaddressed confusion here. I see you mention “lemmy world”, however that is just one instance running Lemmy software. It is open-source, so maybe somebody could fork it, but I don’t think it’s something to ask from lemmy.world. Maybe from the official Lemmy devs, but do keep in mind they’re just volunteers.
As for posting on your profile, that’s something for the side of micro-blogging. Standalone, that could be Mastodon in the Fediverse. But there’s also MBin (active KBin fork) which is compatible with Mastodon.
What is this, reddit? No thank you.
If you want it that badly, implement it and send a pull request, or maintain a fork.
post on their profile rather than communities
could be a great microblog implementation
Live chat doesn’t really fit though I don’t see why it would have large storage requirements. Posting on profiles might be a good idea though.
Either of those would be a general Lemmy thing, not specifically lemmy.world which is just one instance.
