bitching.
Why is chat so bad in 2018?
Discord is a unreliably garbage fire filled with shitty memes.
Slack seems actively hostile to it's users and sucks for personal chat anyway.
Telegram has three clients with three radically different feature sets and behavior.
All of them fucking can and probably do spy on you a plenty.
I miss IRC being a nexus of people I loved and cared about
I miss AIM and YIM and MSN, even with their link replacing and spying shit.
I miss arguing about the superior client.
bitching.
@IrisKalmia I miss the days when XMPP was integrated with Google Talk. You could run your own chat server and still talk to your friends.
bitching.
This... so much!