3 ms·
Pleroma worked on a real time chat implementation for a while, but iirc they went back and forth on whether to use ActivityPub for it and never ended up buildin
by nightpool 7y ago
Pleroma worked on a real time chat implementation for a while, but iirc they went back and forth on whether to use ActivityPub for it and never ended up building anything. IMO, it would require a few extensions on the client to server side, but the server to server side is already flexible enough for you to build a pretty good chat.
as far as streaming more generally, mastodon has had real time streaming for all of its main views since day 1, so it's definitely doable. using mastodon actually feels more real-time, in my experience, then using Twitter—its more directly comparable to seeing new posts and notifications come in on Tweetdeck. The latency between two different mastodon servers is generally a second or two, which is plenty good for microblogging. Obviously more steaming focused impls could do much better.