@nolan @svenja Maybe xmpp?

[fastfinge@fed.interfree.ca]

@nolan @svenja Maybe xmpp? Or something involving IRCV3?

[modulux@node.isonomia.net]

@fastfinge @nolan @svenja To be fair the a11y of discord was sort of there, but also crappy. I never understood how people put up with it.

[nolan@gts.thewordnerd.info]

@modulux @fastfinge @svenja Sure, but at least they were trying. Meanwhile a few years ago the folks at Element made some blog post or other about how privacy/private communication was a human right, I tried applying for a job with them making the case that accessibility needed to be factored into that human right calculus, and radio silence. That was, like, 2019. Here we are in 2026, Discord at least seems to be sort of on top of a11y issues, but I see some of the same issues in Element I saw in 2019. So yeah, it wasn't great, but I could at least participate in Discord in ways I can't easily with Element. Other clients are certainly an option, but if there's one that's both more accessible and featureful then I don't know it.

[fastfinge@fed.interfree.ca]

@nolan @modulux @svenja And the sad thing is any one of us in this thread could do better. But that doesn’t matter for chat apps. We have to use whatever everyone else picks.

[jonathan859@someplace.social]

@nolan Exactly, my words dude.