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Love the project, can *even now* hear the ICQ message notification in my brain … but there’s a disappointing lack of reference to Mastodon and Fediverse in here

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AIM-ing For a More Open Platform Than Discord https://hackaday.com/2026/07/14/aim-ing-for-a-more-open-platform-than-discord/
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Scott Francis
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@fullywoolly my ICQ and IRC overlapped but IRC was always where I spent most of my time. AIM was an afterthought.
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Scott Francis
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@fullywoolly yes, at the same time we got the Year of the Linux Desktop
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Scott Francis
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@fullywoolly spent a long time on EFnet, and have friends on Mastodon today that I first met 30 years ago on #perl
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Tom Bortels
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Hot take:

If you want insecure chat, do IRC or a derivative - but why would you want that?

Signal. Signal is the correct answer today. Use Signal.

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Scott Francis
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@tbortels I think there’s a place for unbounded community chat (much like here), where anybody can join in and new people can find community. This is a different use case than chats with a group of people I already know.
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Tom Bortels
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That place is irc or mastodon or 47 other venues. We have that place.

For others - signal.

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