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@evan Done; I didn't know about this, so thanks for that.
Reading the replies, it's surprising to me that people don't really understand how tags work here. I think maybe my world view is different because I'm on a single-user instance, so it's much more obvious to me that tags don't always have a lot of reach.
@olivier Yep; I used Trillian and Adium (Pidgin) back before everything got so heavily siloed. Well, between the silo eras, I guess.
Remember when Facetime came out, and the way they made platform-specific communications palatable for anyone was by promising they'd make it cross-platform and then… just… didn’t?
I hope me-from-the-better-timeline is thriving.
Regularly, I use the following for near-realtime communications ("text messages”).
- SMS/RCS/iMessage (friends, family)
- Facebook Messenger (friends, family)
- What's App (friends)
- ActivityPub/Mastodon (friends)
- Matrix (friends, work)
- Discord (work)
- Mattermost (friends, locals)
I'm sure I'm missing some.
The fact that no one is allowed to make a single piece of software (for wide distribution) that talks on all of these systems is the kind of garbage @pluralistic often talks about.
@jrf_nl I think it's pretty hard to reach ~80 years into the future. I'd be pretty happy if we could collectively come up with the will to at least expect it to stick.
When all of this is “over”, it's not going to be good enough to say “We shouldn't have let that happen. It'll be better now.” That's just lying to yourselves and everyone else for 4 years.
The only acceptable outcome from a world power who has gone this far off the rails is “we've made it so that it *can’t* happen again.”
