Can't we just go back to AIM or ICQ or whatever when software wasn't gamified to hell yet

[volpeon@icy.wyvern.rip]

People tell me about XMPP and IRC, but what they forget is that my original post includes the impossible task to get people you know to move there.

[tenkoman@sueden.social]

@volpeon Maybe it is time again to revive vBulletin and phpBB and make web 1.5 forums again.

[seldenotter@blimps.xyz]

@volpeon I used AIM right up to the day they killed it. It was a good instant messenger.

[crw@cybre.club]

@volpeon@icy.wyvern.rip Oh, maybe you should use XMPP as I do ​​

[grimmy@mastodon.social]

@volpeon Surprisingly, yes... https://github.com/mk6i/open-oscar-server

[jason@logoff.website]

@volpeon counterpoint: I played the AIM warning system like a kind of game back in the day

[pyxaron@dragonchat.org]

@volpeon That'd be nice.

I really miss using Pidgin and being able to just ctrl-tab between unread text messages and reply in order they were received, and being able to keep things in their separate windows arranged in a way that made sense to me.

[xoagray@tiggi.es]

@volpeon I know how this goes. I'm still on IRC, and I'd love to see more people on there, but a lot of people just refuse to leave Discord.

I still hold out some hope though. I know you and I are on the same server at least once.

[volpeon@icy.wyvern.rip]

@grimmy I love weird projects like this

[grimmy@mastodon.social]

@volpeon Nice then you'll probably also be interested in https://escargot.chat/

[grimmy@mastodon.social]

@volpeon Oh and some point we're actually going to finish making this easy to install and release it.. https://github.com/pidgin/retro-prpl/blob/main/README.md

[vel@gib.schmus.is]

@volpeon@icy.wyvern.rip still hoping retroshare will take off eventually ​​

[wakame@tech.lgbt]

@vel @volpeon

Who's up for DCC'ing over IRC?

[colinstu@birdbutt.com]

@volpeon I’m on XMPP! In my profile

[faket@veganism.social]

@volpeon phpBB !!!

[derfisch@chitter.xyz]

@volpeon at this point I've decided the hassle isn't worth it and I'll just move somewhere myself if I need to, and if my friends actually give a shit they'll follow me there, if only to talk to me. I've been running 3 chat apps at startup for years now just to keep up with people, surely I'm not the only person who should have to extend the same courtesy

[noisytoot@berkeley.edu.pl]

@volpeon IRC please