This weekend, meeting a lot of people, I noticed how hard it is for us to communicate and organize stuff. Some have Instagram, some have X, both are shitty places not designed for group conversation. Some have Discord, some have WhatsApp, some don’t use the phone, some have no social media, and everything requires you to either provide an email or phone number, create an account, etc, so I thought maybe it would be easier to have something like an IRC room, but it’s been more than 20 years since I last touched IRC and I’m sure there must be newer alternatives around.
Main functionality I’m looking for is casualness (no acc needed) and stored live chat. The ability to pin stuff would be great, maybe create sub rooms and have private chat as well. Do you guys know anything like that?
IRC is still around and nothing has really surpassed it yet imho. We keep re-inventing the wheel.
There’s no way a single one of my friends would try irc. They call me a crazy grandpa for using Firefox.
IRC still exists, the closest FOSS IRC client to mIRC is KVIrc.
The closest thing to a modernized IRC is Matrix.
irssi with bitlbee connected to your msn and xmpp
I’d all but forgotten my old stomping grounds.
Email is lowest common denominator ofc.
These are the things to study and learn. We are in a world where there are many mother tongues, moving to a world where there are many chat apps.
SimpleX
DeltaChat
Scuttlebutt
discord can be used without an account - until they kick you out demanding your phone number.
on matrix too you can have a guest user that works somewhat similarly, but most rooms don’t have that enabled I think. I am not too surprised about that, no idea how could that be effectively moderated. it also needs client support but element web supports it
