Subj : Re: Most memorable modern
To : Boraxman
From : Softwing
Date : Thu Jun 26 2025 04:15 pm
Re: Re: Most memorable modern
By: Boraxman to poindexter FORTRAN on Tue May 06 2025 08:09:00
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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.
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> pF> 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
> 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.
Hey;
just an FYI, neither Signal, FB messenger, nor Telegram make people use phone numbers to share contacts. Instead you share contacts via username because phone numbers are outdated for that kinda thing.
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