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@dielan >our chat history became totally one sided
Well yea becuase you need'd to back up your coversations to a file and retore it on another device.

@dielan I tried using Tox and Jitsi once years ago but the documentation was a mess and I stopped using them. Gamers deserve good manuals, even if almost nobody's interested in reading them (or writing them) these days.

@dielan I'll have to check out Stoat. I didn't know it had come so far

@berkberkman I remember Tox! I wanted it to work out so badly

@nsoddity stoat might be cooked actually. Looks like their main instance had it's db fall over due to a sign-up flood, so if you sign up you might not get the email lol

Also, their social media presence is only on Bluesky and they rarely post. I think they are shooting themselves in the foot.

I was checking out valour.gg tonight and I like what I see, might be a better fit. Similar pros and cons as stoat

@dielan @nsoddity i'm surprised ya didn't mention delta chat as it boasts to be built on existing technology and internet standars mainly email, the way it works is that each instance is in essence an email server, every account is an email address in one of those servers and the chats are encrypted emails

https://github.com/deltachat/

@EdBoatConnoisseur @nsoddity I'll check this one out tomorrow


When I wrote that long ass blogpost I had my most stubborn friends in mind, they won't even join fedi, whatever takes discords place in the collective subconscious needs to be easy to sure most of all