Heya fellow café patrons, I’m wondering what your preferred online chatroom systems are.
I recently made a page about why I think e-mail is the best asynchronous narrowcast online communication medium, but I don’t see a clear victor among synchronous narrowcast online communication media, i.e. chatrooms. So what’re your preferred chatroom systems and why?
I hear some major ones are IRC (extended to IRCv3), XMPP, and Matrix.
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I’m digging XMPP at the moment!
Gotta keep the convos going though, otherwise you’re not chatting 
I like the look and feel of both Matrix and XMPP a lot! Unfortunately, my friends have been very firm in using Discord exclusively, so I haven’t gotten much of a chance to try either to their fullest extent.
Discord is a dominant proprietary chat platform right now, yeah; I’m using it but I think it can’t last long due to its proprietary nature; I want to find a decentralized chat platform to avoid the restrictions and the inevitably-doomèdness, but, like you say, and I agree, there isn’t much chance to try any of them to the fullest, in addition to the fact there’s multiple to try in the first place.
History shows that the VC funders will want return on their investment soon… Let the enshitification begin!