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On whatever topic the poster posts and it wold be just like old days instant messaging

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

I think XMPP would be the most appropriate tech for us to adopt, since it's easily self-hostable, has great mobile apps, is federated, and doesn't require an always connected bot to record chat history to know what was said while you were away. It's functionally an improved IRC.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

We need to revive IRC and consolidate in one channel.

I just connected last week and couldn’t find a server / channel which has people chatting.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

IRC still exists. There's nothing stopping anyone from joining a server and a few channels.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Counterpoint: I am too young to understand this technology, it scares me, and I am unwilling to learn.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago

Then you can stay on forums that needs to be refreshed, or uuuh.. isn't there a proprietary IRC like thing for young people, something like Disco? Or Discom. Or Discord? Apparently it's much like IRC but without the freedom.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

I think that's always been the allure of IRC in modern internet times... Keeps the normal people away and makes it a place that's more exclusive to nerds. It's scary, you have to learn a few things, has it's own etiquette and you can't just use it from any phone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

To see what happened you need a bot running saving messages.

Just use matrix, it's good enough to replace IRC

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I use TheLounge which saves and display history for me.

Convos also does that.

I am still on IRC, have my own server, and use TheLounge as a client. We can paste mp3s, mp4s and images on the channels. It just works fine for us.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

You use something that's constantly connected. I'm fine with letting another server handle that part without self hosting