Comment on About the search for a Discord alternative, an article about Matrix versus XMPP
CombatWombat@feddit.online 1 day ago
A good article, but as a millennial, I was completely unprepared for the 2 psychic damage I took from this sentence:
Even based boomerware like IRC has to play second fiddle to them.
skribe@piefed.social 20 hours ago
GenX. I used IRC back in the early 90s, but by the mid-90s I’d moved on. Probably to ICQ. I can’t recall.
Then, in the mid-noughties my millennial work colleagues were going crazy for Mirc. I was shocked to discover it was just IRC with a pretty face but all the same issues that caused me to leave it 10 years before.
And it’s still going. Although, no longer flavour of the month.
biotin7@sopuli.xyz 20 hours ago
What is ICQ ?
krimson@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Heh. Thanks for making me feel old 😂
skribe@piefed.social 20 hours ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICQ