New to this, starting to understand how it works sort of. I am looking for a place to chat to people, are live text chat room communities a thing here? Or do people chat through comments on posts? Not quite understanding that aspect yet.

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        It does but not all of them are out in the open to discover. Part of how SXC works is based around not being discoverable if you don’t want to be.

        There is an official directory with quite a few rooms and some unofficial ones for things that aren’t allowed on the main directory for whatever reason. I would say the overall size is much smaller than even Matrix but there are some pretty large and active rooms that cover a fair bit of tech and general topics. It’s not perfect but I prefer it to Matrix.

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          Thanks for the suggestion, it’s the tech stuff I’m trying to avoid , seems like ever room on matrix is heavily to lightly related to tech. Which is over my head mostly. I m just looking for a semi constant stream of decent chats or personalities.

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            There’s plenty of stuff that isn’t tech there but I don’t use it much for general browsing and chat. We host rooms on SXC for some of our communities and the instance itself as a means of communication off Lemmy. Most of my time is spent in those rooms interacting with people I’ve met on Lemmy or random people who find our rooms on SXC lol.