I was curious whether Lemmy has ever considered (or discussed) adding some form of group chat / group messaging functionality, to the already existing DM system.
One area where this could be *especially* useful is community mod-mail or instance admin-mail.
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Right now, if a user wants to contact a community’s moderators (or instance admins), they generally have to message individuals one by one. A group chat or shared inbox system would allow:
Users to message all community moderators at once
Users to contact instance admins as a group
Mods/admins to see and respond collaboratively in a single thread
This would be similar in spirit to Reddit’s mod-mail system, but adapted to Lemmy’s federated model.
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Potential benefits:
Easier and clearer communication for users
Less duplicated effort for mods/admins
Better moderation transparency and coordination
A single canonical place for moderation-related messages
From a user’s perspective, it would feel like contacting “the mods” as a single entity rather than guessing who to message
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I’m curious:
Has this been discussed before?
Are there technical or federation-related reasons this might be difficult?
Would this be something better handled at the client level, or would it require core Lemmy support?
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***EDIT:*** I would have posted this to the GitHub, but GitHub never works for me, no matter what GitHub account I use, so I just decided to post it here instead.
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