Reddit previously experimented with live audio chat rooms, but ultimately discontinued the feature.
Given Lemmy’s unique position as a federated, open-source alternative to Reddit, should the Lemmy project (or individual instances) consider developing a similar voice chat feature?
- What potential benefits could voice chat bring to Lemmy communities, especially considering the platform’s focus on decentralized moderation and privacy?
- How might voice chat align or conflict with Lemmy’s core values of decentralization, privacy, and user autonomy?
- What technical and moderation challenges could arise from implementing real-time audio communication on a federated network, and how might these differ from centralized platforms like Reddit?
- Should such a feature be standardized across all Lemmy instances, or left as an optional plugin for instance admins to enable or disable?
- How could Lemmy’s open-source nature and ActivityPub federation protocol influence the design, adoption, and interoperability of a voice chat feature across the Fediverse.
- Are there existing open-source projects or protocols that could be leveraged to add voice chat in a privacy-respecting, decentralized way?
I’m interested in hearing from both users and developers about whether this is a direction Lemmy should explore, and what considerations should guide such a decision.
https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/11o30v2/why_is_reddit_ending_audio_chats/
How could you see this utilised to add value? Would they be synchronous,like rooms of people just talking or would it be stacks of recording that you have to press play on?
Perhaps something like Discord, where there are dedicated chat-rooms/channels?
https://www.wikihow.com/Talk-in-Discord
https://discord.com/blog/voice-chat-now-available-on-discord-mobile-apps
IDK
That’s what other federated services like Matrix are for. Maybe there could be an ActivityPub chatroom service but Lemmy is not and will never be that.
All I see is an extra layer of access to the information and an extra layer of interpretation from myself.
I have a friend who text me but does the voice message thing. It’s very frustrating why not just call it feels and awkward way of doing things.
Like others I also really don’t like the idea of other randoms. There is enough noise already around me I am trying to cut through. I kinda use lemmee as a simplified option of tech.
Are you asking because you want to train Ai voices or something?