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ICQ messenger shuts down after almost 28 years (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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[–] systemglitch@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] snownyte@kbin.social 5 points 2 years 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@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

IRC? Matrix? XMPP?

[–] AllYourSmurf@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years 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.

[–] ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

signal? 🤷‍♂️

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] doubletwist@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

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

That's amazingly depressing.

[–] berryjam@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Slack?

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 2 points 2 years ago

Slack went AI retard.

[–] systemglitch@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

I sadly agree with you.

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] loics2@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

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