every time i think "i wonder if i could use ____ instead of that one chat app" i realize ____ doesn't have pluralkit, and it repels me from even trying.
at this point i consider pk a fundamental accessibility tool. i can't express who i am--more really more who we are--without it. but ultimately it's just tools that, from a plurality standpoint, just make sense. you have one @, and you can use that one [body] to host multiple instances of [you] online. it just attributes the posts made by that [body] to various [drivers].
that's something that could just be... there by default. apps all being built by large shareholder-bound corporations run by neurotypical individuals makes it feel improbable, but it's probably not. just a native command to switch headmates and what have you, built-in management for system members and profiles and such. does all the things that one chat app does, except it's specifically designed around plural folks.
would probably do it even better than that one chat app, too, because the way webhooks operate on that one chat app is [comment redacted].
it'd be cool. even if it was a fork of matrix that required self-hosting and could only really be useful for small groups of friends, like, that's all i need. i don't need a social network, i just need a little chat app that's as robust as that one chat app but scaled for groups of 2-20 people and hosted on a machine that you own.
