From @wohali@bird.site
AIM: dead. ICQ: dead. MSN: dead. Y! chat: dead. Google XMPP/Jabber: dead. IRC survived. Remember that.
@mnw looked up ICQ after the Aim anouncement was kind a shocked it is still alive/around. (Admittedly mostly in that someone else is wearing it's dead skin sense.)
@satchmoz ha ha! I think IRC really is the winner as far as simple simultaneous text chat. Maybe one day SDF's com will catch on :D
@tomasino IRC IS STILL DA KING
STILL DA KING BAYBEE https://cybre.space/media/kNurmNK-eUKAGzQOo94
@wohali @dvddpl@mastodon.social woo! Awesome connect
@wohali @dvddpl@mastodon.social your tweet I cross-posted is now my most popular toot. Go you! Meh me. ;)
@tomasino Still nobody using it, though.
I mean, I like a feel-good story as much as the next sophont, but what does people jumping from AIM to Jabber to Hipchat to Slack to the next shiny thing prove?
@akkartik @tomasino Dunno about that, I'm in at least 5 active IRC channels. It's not what it used to be, but it's very much alive.
Jabber is alive too, although struggling. Google Talk effectively defederated (by not implementing server-to-server TLS, and the rest of the world moved on) but I'm running my own Jabber server and host accounts for a few other people.
@tomasino "survived"
@tomasino As an avid irc user: jabber ain't dead as long as we have bitlbee. :P
@tomasino #iirc #irc I think that saying XMPP is dead is a little bit of a stretch, but not too drastic. I got a laugh out of it. 🤣