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AIM: dead. ICQ: dead. MSN: dead. Y! chat: dead. Google XMPP/Jabber: dead. IRC survived. Remember that.
@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 @varx Of course. I'm on IRC as well. But it doesn't seem to be of use to most.
If we don't care about what normies use, then we shouldn't care when those tools die 🙂