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/ Decentralized instant messenger with encrypted messages. >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 guilded.gg/ Discord clone IN ROBLOX??!!
>botnet And that's bad because...? >full of pedos too You have to be 18 to post here.
Camden Reed
kys pedo
Alexander Russell
Which one would be the least likely to dox (excluding discord) you if you were trying to talk with anons 4channel?
Zachary Rogers
All of them (including Discord) have extremely small likelihood of that happening, as long as you don't tie overly personal data with your persona and avoid posting illegal content. What you should be wary of is the users themselves.
Joshua Cooper
Can you give some examples of things that users do to look out for?
Brody Carter
All a regular user can do is fish for information. As long as you keep identifying information out of their reach, it's fine. Number one would be to not post pictures of anything personal. You should also take care to keep your online identities separate (unless you don't mind them being traced back to you) by using different usernames/email addresses for different services. Do not share banking information, phone number, and other personal details. Sharing your age or country of residence shouldn't be a problem. So pretty much just common sense and basic opsec.
Gabriel Williams
Discord won get over it
Jose Adams
>And that's bad because...? >yeah, I fully accept to record my home and publish it online
