I was curious whether Lemmy has ever considered (or discussed) adding some form of group chat / group messaging functionality, to the already existing DM system.

One area where this could be especially useful is community mod-mail or instance admin-mail.

Right now, if a user wants to contact a community’s moderators (or instance admins), they generally have to message individuals one by one. A group chat or shared inbox system would allow:

Users to message all community moderators at once

Users to contact instance admins as a group

Mods/admins to see and respond collaboratively in a single thread

This would be similar in spirit to Reddit’s mod-mail system, but adapted to Lemmy’s federated model.

Potential benefits:

Easier and clearer communication for users

Less duplicated effort for mods/admins

Better moderation transparency and coordination

A single canonical place for moderation-related messages

From a user’s perspective, it would feel like contacting “the mods” as a single entity rather than guessing who to message

I’m curious:

Has this been discussed before?

Are there technical or federation-related reasons this might be difficult?

Would this be something better handled at the client level, or would it require core Lemmy support?

EDIT: I would have posted this to the GitHub, but GitHub never works for me, no matter what GitHub account I use, so I just decided to post it here instead.