My friends and I are hosting a Linux and FOSS group chat to have some casual chat, help, and anything related to the topic really. We chose this platform to chat on to keep a privacy preserving way to engage with one another.
https://signal.group/#CjQKIBshKeuikl5HfagdB46bXpGOyQf_4cVvO3vUMs71DiB9EhDEbE8mS3EPYL0e9CQWHBsy
Having a public chat group inevitably devolves into an endless waterfall of messages. I dunno how you do it. I can barely stand being a group with 5 people.
I feel you but its no different than discord groups or such
It’s very different. Discord has “channels” and “categories” to organize discussions.
I agree here. As much as I hate Discord, it would be much better geared for this. Have you considered Revolt? I haven’t tried it myself, but it is the most prominent open source solution to Discord.
Revolt is great, but still lacks good audio and video support. Me and friends use Mumble now instead till they add good support.
I was by no means suggesting using Discord instead. Just from a purely practical perspective, it is very different.
I didn’t mean to imply that you were suggesting Discord. I was just agreeing with you that channels would really help.
Sorry about that. I meant that OP could check out Revolt for an open source chat that had channels.
I’m also pretty sure Signal has a low cap on users per group – to do real encryption you’re inherently blasting all X users’ public key to all X users, AFAIK, nobody is really doing real encrypted group chats for mass audiences, although we do live in infinite compute world, so maybe I’m not up to date.
the cap is 1000 per group but this group will not ever get to that size. also your latter statement is misinformed. all messages are still e2ee regardless of how many connections you make
I mean like 10k+ users by “mass audience,” ala Telegram. As far as I am aware, nothing will do a channel that large and actually encrypt e2e.