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Discussion on: Deprecating "Connect" (chat)

 
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Akhil Naidu

Mastodon does this exceptionally. I'm not sure how this can be implemented in a Ruby on Rails app, but the way two individually hosted Mastodon communicates can be a good fit for Forem.

It is more like; if you have created an account in one Mastodon instance, there is no need for you to create a new mastodon account. You can use your existing account to signup for another Mastodon server. So, what is the advantage of this?

Let's assume we both are following each other in dev.to and also used our dev.to account to create a Forem account (both of us) => It implicitly means we are also following each other in Forem.dev

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Michael Kohl • Edited

Mastodon does this exceptionally. I'm not sure how this can be implemented in a Ruby on Rails app

Mastodon is a RoR app and open-source, so that could definitely serve as inspiration. 🙂

github.com/mastodon/mastodon

That said, Mastodon is about federating ActivityPub content which is not necessarily a good fit for realt-time chat.

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Akhil Naidu

I see, I'm not aware of those minute facts; but anyways Mastodon is the only social media service I can come up with, which might come near to what Forem is aspiring to introduce via Forem connect.