Yes, but if you want a real one-to-one, private chat system use Matrix or XMPP. Treat anything you write on Lemmy as public information.
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Submitted 2 months ago by workgood@lemmy.dbzer0.com to fediverse@lemmy.world
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rglullis@communick.news 2 months ago
nutomic@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Not public. Private messages can only be accessed by your own admin, and the admin of the recipient. Other instances cannot access it in any way.
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Yea just don’t call yourself ’fediverse chick’
CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Don’t remind me..
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2 months ago
We can chat. What would you like to chat about?
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Reminded me of the following for some reason:
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2 months ago
👏 👏 👏 👏
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months ago
It has DMs, it does not have live chat. For federated live chat, there’s Matrix.
ThunderQueen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Made me curious, are there any lemmy instances with embedded matrix protocol? Does it even work like that?
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months ago
It’s a different protocol altogether so unless someone went out of their way to build a bridge between Lemmy and Matrix, probably not.
siipale@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Can someone send me a dm so I can verify it works?
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You’re about to get so many beans
url@lemmy.world 2 months ago
🫥
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Yes. Click on any person’s username and under their bio there is a button to send a direct message. Not really a live chat thing yet, lemmy does not have the backend for that.
Note, DM’s over Lemmy are NOT encrypted, only obfuscated, any federated server can read the DM’s you send. Keep that in mind when choosing content to talk about.
nutomic@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
This is not correct, Lemmy sends private messages only to the single recipient server. Other instances cannot access it at all.
sirxdaemon@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Wait, what? It’s just the sender and receiver’s instances that can read the message; it’s not just any server right?
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I believe you’re right but don’t know enough about the real back end magic to confirm. What matters is that dm’s are not private and should not be considered private, both in transit (during sending) and at rest (copy sitting at each server)
nutomic@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
You are right.
rglullis@communick.news 2 months ago
The fact that a message is addressed to a single person does not mean that it’s only sent to that person. In theory, anyone following you will receive a notification about the message.
quips@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
That is not true. They are encrypted in transit, but not e2e