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Time for an ICQ for the Fediverse? (aus.social)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Time for an ICQ for the Fediverse?

Looks like ICQ is finally shutting down, just as interest in retro internet tools is growing.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/25/24164579/icq-shut-down-june

@fediverse #ICQ #Fediverse

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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

"Look bro, I can do the same thing we can do now, but slower and worse!โ€

Best description of Matrix (in relation to XMPP) I read in a while ๐Ÿ˜Ž

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

All these people "rediscovering" old tech like we didn't abandon it for a reason. No, I don't want to build a PC out of old Commodore 64s that barely works and needs to be coded in assembly when I can literally get a mini PC that's 100x more powerful for $120.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

XMPP doesn't have link previews or posting, photo albums, even the idea of a picture with caption text us foreign. No comment reaction, retraction or replies. Inline video or video stream, lol no, even gifs don't work. Talking or video chat ? Not even in your dreams. No wonder the youths hang out on discord

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You are very outdated in your info about xmpp. Most of the stuff you mention is available these days.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I manage the xmpp server of my friend group and we don't have any of that in gajim conversation and siskin

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Gajim will have some more of that in the next version, Monocles or Cheogram have more modern features than Conversations and Siskin is very outdated feature wise and you should probably replace it with Monal.

That said it is not true that the three clients you mentioned have none of that. Sure they don't have all of it, and there is some feature mismatch between them, but you are making it sound much worse than it is.

Oh and you can always use Movim which has most of the features you mentioned.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Thanks, I told the ios users to give monal a try. One responded it didn't work last time he tried. I will try the android app.

I think the most annoying is tge lack of opengraph support, bot or server side if it has to be. But no url preview suuuuuucks

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Cheogram Android has the send half of URL preview. I will be adding display on the receive side this year when I get the time.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Thanks for suggestion I will try that one

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don't give a shit about any of those things. I'm fine with chat that just doea chat.

[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago

I think the few remaining devs agree with you. We think this suck & look forward to whatever comes next. Xmpp is stuck in the past.