One thing that really pisses me off personally is the #regression in terms of #Messenger#Apps.

My personal distaste and dislike for #proprietary, #SingleVendor & #SingleProvider #services like #Signal鹿, #Telegram, #Discord, #WhatsApp, #Slack, #MicrosoftTeams, etc. aside:

  • WHY is there no #CrossProvider#Messenger to handle that shite?

  • WHY does everyone of these shitty providers think people want to download their #bloated#WebApp that takes up triple digit Megabytes if not entire Gigabytes and will gobble up all the #RAM and #CPU they can??

This problem ain't new and already got solved for corporate social media ages ago! (Not to mention actually good messengers!)

So yeah, consider this a call for a @gajim / #Gajim or @pidgin / #Pidginfor garbage platforms!

  • Cuz back in the day we had way worse messengers yet people actually made #AIM, #ICQ, #MSN, #QQ, #IRC & #XMPP work just fine from one single "phat" client!

  • Can we please get that back?

#api0#Enshittification

Gajim 2.3.3 has been released!

This release comes with many fixes for Windows windows and it brings some styling improvements, better performance and bugfixes.

Thank you for all your contributions 鉂わ笍 Let us know what you think!

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https://gajim.org/posts/2025-07-13-gajim-2.3.3-released/

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Gajim 2.3.1 and 2.3.2 have been released!

As with every major change, some bugs make it through the testing phase. 馃悰

These two Gajim releases fix database migration issues and the Windows system tray icon.

Thank you for all your contributions! 鉂わ笍

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https://gajim.org/posts/2025-07-02-gajim-2.3.1-2.3.2-released/

Gajim 2.3 has been released 馃コ

A fresh new look for Gajim arrived! 馃槑
With this release Gajim introduces Adwaita, a library providing styles, nicely designed user interface elements, animations and more. Many dialogs, including Preferences and Plugin management have been redesigned.

This release is available on Windows again - finally!

Thank you for all your contributions! 鉂わ笍

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https://gajim.org/posts/2025-06-29-gajim-2.3.0-released/