Regularly, I use the following for near-realtime communications ("text messages”).
- SMS/RCS/iMessage (friends, family)
- Facebook Messenger (friends, family)
- What's App (friends)
- ActivityPub/Mastodon (friends)
- Matrix (friends, work)
- Discord (work)
- Mattermost (friends, locals)
I'm sure I'm missing some.
The fact that no one is allowed to make a single piece of software (for wide distribution) that talks on all of these systems is the kind of garbage @pluralistic often talks about.
@sean you can download Trillian, it will connect to things such as MSN and ICQ within the same app. Seems to be doing Foursquare, Facebook and Twitter too.
Look at what they took from us!
@olivier Yep; I used Trillian and Adium (Pidgin) back before everything got so heavily siloed. Well, between the silo eras, I guess.
Remember when Facetime came out, and the way they made platform-specific communications palatable for anyone was by promising they'd make it cross-platform and then… just… didn’t?
I hope me-from-the-better-timeline is thriving.
Sean Coates
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