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Then something like trillian to glue them all together.
There was also Meebo, which allowed you to login to all of them via a web interface (which I believe none of the messengers had natively) without installing the respective clients!
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Then something like trillian to glue them all together.
Adium! It really was a gem of an app. Much better than any other I’d used at the time (or that I have used since, actually).
A pox on Slack.
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Well I'd say that Instagram was yet another inflection point, where relationships with strangers returned in parasocial many-to-one form, in place of the one-on-one intimacy afforded by ICQ. At the time of ICQ, chat programs were the sole means of discovering and connecting to people, and allowed people to connect to strangers based on location. I made real life friends, who I met in person on ICQ. I suppose this kin…
To me, "parasocial" is the very defintion of popular _after_ high school
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We're working hard on that update.. But volunteers only have so much time, but hopefully we'll have an alpha soon (tm).
On Adium? Really? Great to hear that. I was extremely fond of Adium, a decade ago. On Pidgin? Cool. I am surprised but I managed to get Pidgin working on macOS via Brew yesterday, which automatically installed a recent version of WINE, to my considerable surprise. It wouldn't connect to anything and I couldn't find where, in one OS's emulated filesystem on top of my real OS's rather complex filesystem, I could put pl…
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On Adium? Really? Great to hear that. I was extremely fond of Adium, a decade ago. On Pidgin? Cool. I am surprised but I managed to get Pidgin working on macOS via Brew yesterday, which automatically installed a recent version of WINE, to my considerable surprise. It wouldn't connect to anything and I couldn't find where, in one OS's emulated filesystem on top of my real OS's rather complex filesystem, I could put pl…
Last I checked the homebrew version of pidgin was native...