Subj : Re: Most memorable modern
To   : anthk
From : Boraxman
Date : Sat May 31 2025 02:16 pm

 Re: Re: Most memorable modern
 By: anthk to All on 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> @MSGID: <[email protected]>
> >  ph> @REPLY: <[email protected]>
> >  ph>   Re: Re: Most memorable modern
> >  ph>   By: Boraxman to Dumas Walker 
> >  ph> Thu May 01 2025 08:02 am
>
> > > 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 smal
> >  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 tha
> >  ph> up. Usually, though, I try not to sign in to Reddit in order to not b
> >  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 notic
> >  ph> and hear from more than others, there is still a pretty good variety
> >  ph> people around and participating here and there. I say this frequentin
> >  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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> Just use Bitlbee (libpurple build) with any IRC client.
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