Greetings Programs!! We're back at it tonight working on @pidgin 3.0 Experimental 5!! Come on by!!
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Greetings Programs!! We're back at it tonight working on @pidgin 3.0 Experimental 5!! Come on by!!
https://twitch.tv/rw_grim
https://youtube.com/@rw_grim
https://www.patreon.com/rw_grim/events/144053838
Greetings Programs!!
You may be aware that we have a list of third party plugins for @pidgin at https://pidgin.im/plugins. What you don't know is that I'm looking at retiring it for something that's a bit easier for people to update and require less interaction from me personally.
I've created a discourse post to discuss this further, so if you maintain a plugin or have thoughts as a user, or whatever, please share them there! https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/plugin-discovery/
Greetings Programs!!
You may be aware that we have a list of third party plugins for @pidgin at https://pidgin.im/plugins. What you don't know is that I'm looking at retiring it for something that's a bit easier for people to update and require less interaction from me personally.
I've created a discourse post to discuss this further, so if you maintain a plugin or have thoughts as a user, or whatever, please share them there! https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/plugin-discovery/
So per https://gaim.pidgin.im/index.php?id=13 today is #Gaim / @pidgin 's Birthday and I somehow totally forgot yet again. Might try to do something tonight, but what do you remember or miss the most about #Gaim / @pidgin ?
The October 2025 State of the Bird is out!! https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/state-of-the-bird-october-2025/
The October 2025 State of the Bird is out!! https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/state-of-the-bird-october-2025/
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!)
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!
I mean, these ain't like in the old days where a few Megabytes got you #Pidgin and other Multi-Protocol Clients of the old days where everyone had to implement bespoke, custom and incompatible and *often completely undocumented, proprietary * protocols like #ICQ, #AIM, #SIPE, etc.
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!)
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!
Remember Pidgin, formerly GAIM? It's coming back • The Register
https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/13/pidgin_chat_client_uopdate/
