Subj : Re: Most memorable modern
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From : anthk
Date : Thu May 29 2025 11:59 pm

On 2025-05-03, Boraxman <[email protected]> wrote:
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> -=> phigan wrote to Boraxman <=-
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>  ph>   Re: Re: Most memorable modern
>  ph>   By: Boraxman to Dumas Walker on
>  ph> Thu May 01 2025 08:02 am
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> > Maybe I'll check out Matrix.
>
>  ph> Personally, I think Matrix is best for just direct friends / family
>  ph> chats. Like a replacement for phone calls and SMSes. It's ok for small
>  ph> chat groups. Some people use it for larger chat gatherings like
>  ph> Discord, but I'm not a fan of Discord either, so maybe that gives me
>  ph> bias ;).
>
>  ph> Reddit Terminal Viewer is a new one on me, so I will have to look that
>  ph> up. Usually, though, I try not to sign in to Reddit in order to not be
>  ph> tempted to reply to a lot of the stupid that is on there. Plus, web
>  ph> forums are what killed BBSes, so I shake my fist at them (although
>  ph> Reddit is probably the best one).
>
>  ph> Usenet plus BBSes ... while there are certain users that you'll notice
>  ph> and hear from more than others, there is still a pretty good variety of
>  ph> people around and participating here and there. I say this frequenting
>  ph> BBSes of all the platforms (Amiga, Apple, Atari, Commodore, Macintosh,
>  ph> and PC). 
>
> Just for direct friends and family, you'll have to get them to install
> it and use it.  Thats hard enough.  They'll have other friends who
> want to use Signal, others that use Snapchat, others that use
> Messenger or WhatsApp or whatever.  Its a PITA.  Best compromise is to
> use services where there can at least be a common client, ie, one
> client that supports mulitiple protocols.  Weechat does IRC and
> Matrix, so despite the fact I use IRC, if I went on Matrix, at least I
> can still use the same client.  Same with Pidgin, where I (briefly)
> used it, or its predecessor to use both a MSN messenger and I think
> Yahoo! Chat account.
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