Preferred chatroom systems?

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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 :joy:

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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.

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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.

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History shows that the VC funders will want return on their investment soon… Let the enshitification begin!

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I prefer to use Discord, Signal and Telegram, however, I mainly use Discord. I also use Facebook messenger, but I rarely use it.

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Signal or IRC for me. Discord is just Slack/Teams for gamers, IMO. Bad enough I’ve got to use Slack/Teams at work.

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I have to be on Discord because reasons. I hate it, but a lot of my friends are there too, so that’s where we chat. Actually started on Jabber long ago, then Google basically killed it. Tried getting back into it recently with a new account, but now it’s a niche. Had better luck with Matrix, but eh. Not impressed. Still, made new friends there.

Last but not least, lately I’ve been trying Jami.net with a couple of friends, and we like it, but nobody else we know uses it yet. Oh well.

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WhatsApp for talking to normal people, Signal if I have a choice.