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I'm down with this (thelemmy.club)
submitted 14 hours ago by to c/historymemes@piefed.social
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[–] 22 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

I want Pidgin or Trillian so I can talk to my friends on both MSN and Yahoo.

Also shoutouts to the brief period where everything was xmpp and Gmail could talk to Facebook and self-hosted.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 hours ago

    I think the problem is that all the other chat services that they used to connect to closed off their connection protocols. Can't serve a bunch of shitty advetisements if users aren't using your website or app.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 hours ago

    Just one open source free platform would be fine. IRC with modern protocols for pics and video that can be viewed in the chat app of your choosing. Keep it simple, or add backgrounds. Mini chat boxes, or transparancy. Basic low resource use, or heavy, you decide, same open cross app platform.

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