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submitted 6 months ago by ajsadauskas@aus.social to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml

Time for an ICQ for the Fediverse?

Looks like ICQ is finally shutting down, just as interest in retro internet tools is growing.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/25/24164579/icq-shut-down-june

@fediverse #ICQ #Fediverse

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[-] poVoq@slrpnk.net 2 points 6 months ago

You are very outdated in your info about xmpp. Most of the stuff you mention is available these days.

[-] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

I manage the xmpp server of my friend group and we don't have any of that in gajim conversation and siskin

[-] poVoq@slrpnk.net 2 points 6 months ago

Gajim will have some more of that in the next version, Monocles or Cheogram have more modern features than Conversations and Siskin is very outdated feature wise and you should probably replace it with Monal.

That said it is not true that the three clients you mentioned have none of that. Sure they don't have all of it, and there is some feature mismatch between them, but you are making it sound much worse than it is.

Oh and you can always use Movim which has most of the features you mentioned.

[-] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

Thanks, I told the ios users to give monal a try. One responded it didn't work last time he tried. I will try the android app.

I think the most annoying is tge lack of opengraph support, bot or server side if it has to be. But no url preview suuuuuucks

[-] singpolyma@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago

Cheogram Android has the send half of URL preview. I will be adding display on the receive side this year when I get the time.

[-] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

Thanks for suggestion I will try that one

this post was submitted on 26 May 2024
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