Welcome to the Instant Messaging Thread! You can discuss everything related to the text/voice chat programs, the protocols underlying them, and everything in-between. You are also welcome to share invites and tags! List of popular chat programs: >Discord discord.com The undisputed king of desktop messaging with huge userbase, most open-source projects have their dedicated server in there. >Element element.io matrix.org The most popular client that implements the Matrix protocol, often touted as an alternative to Discord, but because of larger scope (with things like federating and encryption) it is less user friendly and polished. >IRC en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat rizon.net/ (popular network for shitposting) libera.chat/ (spiritual successor of freenode, many older open-source projects have channels there) sageru.org/irc/ (Anonymous IRC network) irchelp.org/clients/ (list of IRC clients) An ancient, text-only chat protocol. Still kicking in 2022, it's a bastion of old-timers that cling to their old ways. Not as user friendly as alternatives above. >GNU Jami jami.net/ Free as in freedom means of communication. >Tox tox.chat/ Chat anonymously over the Tor network. >XMPP xmpp.org/getting-started/ blackgnu.net/xmpp-introduction.htm Some communication protocol uhh it does something who cares. >Revolt revolt.chat/ A self-hostable Discord knockoff (Beta)
Guilded is a cool Discord clone, with it's main gimmick being that it has more features than Discord and all the features that Discord locks behind a paywall are free on Guilded. Unfortunately, it has a really tiny userbase.
>Guilded is a VoIP, instant messaging and digital distribution platform designed by Guilded Inc. and owned by Roblox Corporation >Roblox Corporation Funny
Bentley Hill
nakadashi senko-chan
Brandon Perez
>>Tox >tox.chat/ >Chat anonymously over the Tor network. Tox is direct P2P, Tor is a workaround
James Anderson
that’s Senko-san to you, mortal. Show the demi-goddess some fucjing respect, lest you get wrecked
Jackson Carter
sex
Angel Barnes
What if I want to use AIM?
Adrian Sullivan
Someone shill some matrix groups, I want to give it a try
Brandon Murphy
why'd you want to use dead protocol?
Joshua Lee
I got tired of having no real way of sharing files between devices/friends, so I'm making my own in C! The text and voice functionalities are more of an added bonus.
Mason Martin
You can just use tox for sharing files between friends. Or selfhost firefox send
Julian Rodriguez
>trusting proprietary software No thanks, I'd rather bash my head against the wall that is network protocols in C and learn something from it
Luke Fisher
senkoniggers deserve crucifixion
Jeremiah Harris
Firefox Send is opensource, you can selfhost it
Camden Foster
It seems someone has forked it and kept it up-to-date: github.com/timvisee/send Pretty neat. Still lacks communication methods, though.
Dominic Reyes
Huh, just host a nginx server
Tyler Rodriguez
bumpin
John Garcia
how do i make friends though
Samuel Brown
A good question to start with is do you want friends, or do you want people to talk about yourself to?
