@Duine @xianc78 >Most importantly, join the Discord
>join the most cancerous platform for circlejerks of terminally online people and power tripping jannies

Real nerds would proudly document in autistic detail everything they could in that page and actually avoid too much direct contact with strangers. I don't know what happened to retro vidya communities, but they are in terrible state.
@deadheat @Duine @xianc78 troons ruin everything, this is why discord and its consequences were a disaster for the nerd communities
it gets so bad that some retards publish links to their mods and work and other shit to discord ONLY and never leave it anywhere else, like nigger i am not verifying my phone number AND pretending to be a faggy libtard just so i get let into the server and can download one fucking mod
say it with me: DISCORD IS NOT A REPLACEMENT FOR WEB HOSTING
@dia @deadheat @Duine @xianc78 discord is not a replacement for xmpp either!
neither is reddit a replacement for forums
at least reddit can be indexed by search engines and archived, good fucking luck with discord
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@lina @deadheat @Duine @dia Were XMPP rooms ever popular? It seems like IRC was always the go to standard for multi-user chats. Hell, even back in the early 2010s, IRC was actually making a small comeback before Discord came around.

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i've used IRC a ton, but skype was the chat app everyone was on before iirc
@xianc78 @deadheat @Duine @dia it's a neat middleground between IRC and more conventional chats if the admin allows upload of files and your client supports it, gajim 1.3 fits perfectly to me, not looking like rounded discord-like goyslop webshit and letting me have the bare minimum functionality that i need
@xianc78 @lina @deadheat @Duine @dia xmpp was never popular except with diehard nerds of the era who wanted to be in on the newest thing
@PhenomX6 @deadheat @Duine @xianc78 @dia it federated with qip and icq at the time, so there's that tbh, i miss old messengers
@PhenomX6 @deadheat @Duine @xianc78 @dia precisely, just unearth xmpp, qip and stuff, fix em up to not be exploit paradises and here we go, all that shit federated in the past, it can do so again today, xmpp already works as is, but i've seen people complain about it for reasons that aren't interesting to me
@xianc78 @lina @deadheat @Duine @dia XMPP rooms do exist, though for the most part it's used only by nerds and anonymity guru's.
This is great, but it also means 99% of these rooms will have an ancom-style atmosphere.
@ryo @deadheat @Duine @xianc78 @dia jabber.ru's still got a list of chatrooms, although as you'd expect, they are in russian
http://jc.jabber.ru/
i think we need more stuff like that

@ryo @deadheat @Duine @lina @dia I know, but they seem to be rarely used even compared to IRC.

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And even if it did get popular you could always just go to the more obscure rooms/servers. It's decentralized so there can be something for everyone.

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>ancom-style atmosphere.
That's literally no different than Discord.

@xianc78 @deadheat @Duine @lina @dia The main difference is that Discucked got subverted into only allowing ancoms (or soycialists or communists or tankies, same thing anyway, except ancoms actually know computers unlike the others), whereas XMPP has an ancom atmosphere simply because very few people in other tribes even consider giving XMPP a try because "it's so hard" (no, it isn't).
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