Mastodawn

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.

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Kaze

@sean @pluralistic well, we used to have some when IRC/MSN were kings. Adium, Pidgin, Trillian and so on...

But closed platforms took over by offering slick interfaces, emojis and stickers.

For me, it began with Facebook Messenger replacing MSN, Slack replacing IRC and/or MSN, and so on.

We never learn, we are continually repeating the same cycle, the same mistakes