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ICQ messenger shuts down after almost 28 years (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The king has died, long live the shit we have now?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Out of everything we have today, Discord is arguably the best we've got.

Nobody cares about Skype anymore as much. VK Messenger, which is ICQ's successor, looks like trash. Telegram used to be very great but did take some morally questionable steps, yet still gives the user an awful lot of power. Zoom is garbage. Microsoft Teams is garbage. Facebook Messenger is garbage.

So if I had to pick, Discord and Telegram is the best we've got now.

[–] 257m 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

IRC? Matrix? XMPP?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

These three are still the best bet.

I made the observation last week at work. As my teams starts to move from Slack to (ahem) Teams, it’s worth noting that the internal IRC still works.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

signal? 🤷‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Groups etc. are not the same there, specifically for privacy/encryption reasons.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

Out of everything we have today, Discord is arguably the best we've got.

That's amazingly depressing.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Slack?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Slack went AI retard.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

I sadly agree with you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You mean MSN messenger doesn't exist anymore?!?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I have some good news for you: https://escargot.chat/