Subj : Re: Most memorable modern
To   : Boraxman
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Sun May 04 2025 09:11 pm

-=> Boraxman wrote to phigan <=-

Bo> Just for direct friends and family, you'll have to get them to install
Bo> it and use it.  Thats hard enough.  They'll have other friends who
Bo> want to use Signal, others that use Snapchat, others that use
Bo> Messenger or WhatsApp or whatever.  Its a PITA.  Best compromise is to
Bo> use services where there can at least be a common client, ie, one
Bo> client that supports mulitiple protocols.  Weechat does IRC and
Bo> Matrix, so despite the fact I use IRC, if I went on Matrix, at least I
Bo> can still use the same client.  Same with Pidgin, where I (briefly)
Bo> used it, or its predecessor to use both a MSN messenger and I think
Bo> Yahoo! Chat account.

I was going to mention Pidgin/GAIM - back in the AOL/MSN/Gtalk days,
people were on all platforms - then, we used XMPP at work on a dedicated
server, I ran my own XMPP server - and could read/write messages on all
the networks with Pidgin.



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