Subj : Re: Most memorable modern
To : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Boraxman
Date : Tue May 06 2025 08:09 am
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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.
pF> I was going to mention Pidgin/GAIM - back in the AOL/MSN/Gtalk days,
pF> people were on all platforms - then, we used XMPP at work on a
pF> dedicated server, I ran my own XMPP server - and could read/write
pF> messages on all the networks with Pidgin.
Signal has actually become my defacto "messenger" program. Not by choice, but
simply by virtue of chance and others I know using it. However, it is not a
replacement. Signal requires a phone, and it advertises to all that you use
it.
Iliked MSN because I didn't feel to concerned about giving people by MSN
handle,
strangers I could talk to that I wouldn't necessarily want to add in my phone
book.
I was hoping with IPv6 that each person could somehow obtain a static IP or IP
range that was static within a country/region. That way it acted like a psuedo
internet phone number, and chat clients could work without a central
controller.
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