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 #Signal¹, #Telegram, #Discord², #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!)

• And no, bridgesdon't count!

• I mean API 0 - style access because obviously none of the platforms will allow, endorse or support such an endeavour and actively fight the developers and users !

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

Like: There's not much of a technical reason something similar to @zulip 's #TUI - based client could exit.

• Obviously #proprietary platforms - (just like #Shitter even before #ApartheidEmeraldBoy took over and speedrun it into becoming a #NaziBar) - will try to passive-aggressively stifle such #clients, but still...
  

If people can build #bots for shite like #discord, #Telegram, etc. then why not make an actually good client ???

It just makes me wounder: Are modern messengers these days complicated or do the people who have the talent to write such a #MultiProtocolIM chosen that this is stupid and that like myself they'd never touch that shite in their life and make peace with it?

• And I'm not talking about specific #API limitations like #Discord uses to force people to use their garbage client, but like #WhatsAppWeb and others...

We now have multiple platforms to communicate with us. We're on #Matrix , #Signal and #Discord . Please see https://links.btfree.org if you'd like to join any of these communities. We'd prefer Matrix, but we want to make our platforms as accessible as possible, so we're trying to be as many places as possible.

We now have multiple platforms to communicate with us. We're on #Matrix , #Signal and #Discord . Please see https://links.btfree.org if you'd like to join any of these communities. We'd prefer Matrix, but we want to make our platforms as accessible as possible, so we're trying to be as many places as possible.

🇩🇪 Hey queer folx in Germany! 🇩🇪

I have a queer friend who's fleeing the US to your lovely country. She's hella cool, but she doesn't know anyone there yet 👉👈

I told her I'd pass on the Discord info (sadly, she's not on Mastodon) of any of my community here if they wanted an introduction 💞

Did I mention she's awesome?

#LGBTQ+ #Germany#Discord#Introduction#PleaseBoost

One Last Time, Discord Is Not A Suitable Replacement For Forums https://aftermath.site/discord-forums-move-champions-neverwinter-star-trek-support-faq#Discord#Forum#Forums