[Discuss] What (free software) options are people using for chat?

[jabr at blu.org (John Abreau)]

There's just no substitute for the classics! Never mind all these
newfangled protocols. Ream Men(TM) chat via cuneiform tablets transported
by carrier pigeons.

Of course, carrier pigeons cannot compete with the airspeed velocity of an
unladen swallow...

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 1:06 PM, Dan Ritter <dsr at randomstring.org> wrote:

> On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 12:46:49PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> > On Thu, 19 May 2016 09:19:54 -0400
> > john saylor <js0000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > /join
> > >
> > > On 05/18/16 20:43, Greg Rundlett (freephile) wrote:
> > > > It's remarkable that IRC still exists after all these years.
> > >
> > > plain text chat still allows humans to communicate effectively with
> > > each other. and also the minimal display capability required of
> > > clients [plain text] makes it very flexible [and unix friendly].
> > >
> > > people just keep usin' it!
> >
> > But John, IRC is ancient. It's ugly plain text. It should be replaced
> > by a system, from Freedesktop.org, that replaces IRC's simple API with
> > something more modern and complex: Something that integrates completely
> > with your Facebook account, and requires Gnome on the server end.
>
> No, get with the program: all remote systems administration should be
> done via chatbot. Your init system will start a server listening for
> dbus messages, which will be the native chat protocol of the future.
>
> -dsr-
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