Using this feature, for example, youcan ask your moderators to highlight all chat questions, so youcan see them at a glance during your livestream, and check them as answered.
If you are not logged in onthe Peertube instance where you are watching the video, you will automatically join the chat.You will be assigned a random nickname (something like "Anonymous 12345").
The Peertube instancecan configure external authentication providers (Mastodon accounts, Google accounts, ...).In such case, you will see a "{{% livechat_label login_using_external_account %}}" button, that will open a dialog modal.In this dialog modal, there will be some buttons to connect using a remoteaccount.
Once you signed in theremoteaccount, and have granted access, your nickname and avatar (if available) will be automatically fetched.No other data will be stored.These data will be automatically deleted several hours after your quit the chat.
If you are watching a liveon an instanceon which you have noaccount, but you have an accounton another instance: if the livechat plugin is installed on both instances, it is possible to jointhe chat using youraccount.To do so, just open the video onyourinstance (youcan for example copy/paste the video url in the search field of yourinstance).