Clarification:

I know he’s Big Brother’s lackey, but lately I’ve been really lacking communication, apparently I’ve fallen for this hook.

I haven’t been able to find any real-life communication for years now, but I’ve been increasingly reluctant to risk communicating while Big Brother is watching. There are good alternatives to Discord?

  • dfyx@lemmy.helios42.deEnglish
    9·
    1 day ago

    Bah, the young ones joining IRC through a web interface. Back in my day, we used telnet, typed the IRC commands by hand and hoped we were quick enough to reply to PING to not get kicked from the server.

    Well, not really but I did it occasionally to better understand how the protocol works.

    • kyonshi@piefed.socialEnglish
      1·
      16 hours ago

      Well we still chiseled our chat messages into stone and sent them by pigeon. We usyally got pinged out before we even finished the first letter.

      • dfyx@lemmy.helios42.deEnglish
        4·
        1 day ago

        I was a fan of Miranda IM because that’s what I used for everything else (ICQ, MSN, XMPP, AIM, occasionally Skype though that plugin didn’t work that well). If I remember correctly, joining multiple servers was a bit more cumbersome than with other clients but having everything in one application was amazing.

        • hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org
          3·
          1 day ago

          Miranda NG is still actually around and being updated! It works pretty well for IRC, XMPP, Telegram, Discord, and a few others that I haven’t tried. Still Windows only tho