slowly accumlating friends on xmpp. makes me very happy. i get a special kind of euphoria from chatting with people on psi+
1 month ago 路 馃憤 nezbednik, arubes, platypus_laser
I honestly don't think it's a technology issue, more a social one. IRC attracts IRC people. They're adept at having conversations. I feel like XMPP users are more socialised to idle. 路 1 month ago
@gyaradong i definitely think IRC is easier to get started on, but it gets exponentially more complicated when you try to impose modern features on it by using a bouncer. IRC with a bouncer is like, +150% more complicated than XMPP on its own. but yeah id attribute the complexity of getting started on XMPP to the fact that clients tend to implement the various XMPP standards COMPLETELY differently from one another and that leads to friction unless everyone uses the same damn client. it feels kinda like email at times, where every client has to take into account what every other client might not have, and include functionality to mitigate that friction 路 1 month ago
lol same. much easier to connect in IRC 路 1 month ago
@istvan oh, ive been seeking people out on melonland forums since there are quite a few people there who use jabber. ive also been getting some friends who like retro stuff to make accounts! 路 1 month ago
arubes@magicbroccoli.de
mostly I keep this so people can contact me as an admin, but also for the occasional group chat 路 1 month ago
@istvan, maybe just start from people from those two rooms? 路 1 month ago
Any advice on making connections? I set up a server months ago but have zero contacts. Just hang out in two rooms. 路 1 month ago