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Lol. The website doesn’t even let me log in because the form doesn’t recognize that I fucking passed the bot check.
I can’t fathom why everything is on discord nowadays. It’s garbage software.
it's because the alternatives suck more
slack is paid, irc is a bodge on top of a bodge on top of a bodge, xmpp is rather similar, and matrix... would be nice if any of the clients except element supported any of the features, and also if message synchronization worked more than halfway
Tbh, I would not mind a proper chat standard built on activitypub, it's obvious that this protocol works, now if only somebody built a secure messaging platform with it.
The creator of Pixelfed is making something
https://mastodon.social/@dansup/110836811082599292
Looks very interesting, love to see how well it works (and interoperates between different fediverse platforms)
MAM & carbons is a solved issue with message synchronization on XMPP. Works great.