Samsy to Memes · 10 months agoI heard there will be a fediverse messenger.imagemessage-square105fedilinkarrow-up1869arrow-down123
arrow-up1846arrow-down1imageI heard there will be a fediverse messenger.Samsy to Memes · 10 months agomessage-square105fedilink
minus-square𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬linkfedilinkarrow-up14·10 months agoNope, because you cannot connect with accounts from a different network. XMPP is pretty much federated without advertising it as being federated. This is just how it works.
minus-squareOrbituary@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·10 months agoRemember when gchat was XMPP then Google fucked that right up? Pepperidge Farms remembers.
minus-squareAlbbi@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up8·10 months agoI loved Trillian for being a messaging app that just integrated gchat, msn, ICQ, etc. I miss a unified messenger so much. I think it died when SMS became mainstream.
minus-squareOrbituary@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·10 months agoThat was my choice. I still have my purple config files with my chat history. Pointless now, but whatever. I had ICQ, Aim, gchat, and yahoo all in one client. Those were the days.
minus-square𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬linkfedilinkarrow-up2·10 months agoRemember when Facebook had an XMPP bridge to their messenger?
Isn’t that just IRC
Nope, because you cannot connect with accounts from a different network.
XMPP is pretty much federated without advertising it as being federated. This is just how it works.
Remember when gchat was XMPP then Google fucked that right up?
Pepperidge Farms remembers.
I loved Trillian for being a messaging app that just integrated gchat, msn, ICQ, etc. I miss a unified messenger so much. I think it died when SMS became mainstream.
Pidgin?
That was my choice. I still have my purple config files with my chat history. Pointless now, but whatever.
I had ICQ, Aim, gchat, and yahoo all in one client. Those were the days.
Beeper?
Remember when Facebook had an XMPP bridge to their messenger?
Good to know, thanks