Lord of the memes

With all the garbage happening privacy-wise - breaches, data farming, ads, e2ee removal - with all well-known messengers, I've decided to take messaging into my own hands. The solution turned out to be a 25 year old system called XMPP. Like you say, XMPP isn't as flashy (some desktop clients still look like AOL) but is solid.

Well no, it doesn't keep a history of chats for once. You don't have a record of conversations if your client wasn't running at that time. There's a few other limitations that I'm not familiar with, that prompted many people and orgs to switch to things like rocket chat or matrix

It's not just text anymore.

I use TheLounge as a client. It's web based and can show previews of images and videos. So my friends and I can upload images and videos to the server and watch them in the channel.

Convos also does this.

Twitch, at least did, have a IRC version of their chat. So you could stream the video with like mpv and have irssi to avoid the browser, and basically have the full experience

That's usually the case, sure, but you realize in this instance they don't mean boomer as actual boomer, but as anyone and everyone over 30?

And we prefer it that way.

I also met your wife on IRC. Nice person, good choice. I'd say neither of you are the reacher in your relationship. Well done.

Easy - IRC worked way better and was way less miserable

Has it failed? Or have you failed at being loyal?

IRC is still around. I have no data but would guess more people use it now than in the “heyday” (mainly just because there are a lot more people online)

Hosting a chat room meant you had to self host or trust someone else's server.

There is no concept of groups. So you had to create several channels with some kind of naming scheme. There is no way to see them in a group. You just need to know about them as a chatter.

History is not saved by default. Most used a 3rd party server to host a history log, which is more work.

There is no audio, video, screen sharing.

You can't reply to a chat with an emoji. You can't edit your previous chats.

You can't reply to a specific chat unless you get specific like copying the original chat.

Don't get me wrong. I hated that discord owns most of the communication online.

I wish there was a simple and easy to use open source tool that did all of that in a single package.

I don't mind self-hosting but if I have to self-host several interacting services that I need to update manually, it becomes a pain.

From https://xkcd.com/1782/

Apparently the answer is yes as people in this thread are saying. That’s pretty cool.

Yes