[BillyTheMage]

Personally I'm enjoying the return to the "older" kinds of social media. I quite like the ones that are just a text forum with threads focused around a broad topic that everyone in that community is passionate about.

I'm struggling with it, but I'm also trying out IRC. From what I can tell there are still a lot of active IRC users on Libera.

[SllX]

Speaking of IRC, I just reinstalled Colloquy the other night, only to find out that Colloquy seems to be halfway to being abandonware. I almost couldn't find it because the old website still burned into my memory, colloquy.info just turns up an SSL certificate error and I had thought I got the wrong URL at first, but no, Internet Archive confirmed that's what it was.

So it's colloquy.app now, right? You go to that website, and there's two links: the App Store link takes you to an iPad version not verified for Mac OS X and with tons of bad reviews, and the GitHub link is where you can find Mac builds, the latest is 2.5-prerelease-7097 from July 2021 which isn't exactly inspiring confidence that it still has legs.

So I mean, if anybody knows what the gold standard on Macs is nowadays I'm open to suggestions, otherwise I might just fire up Irssi and be done with it.

[tga]

The experience isn’t amazing, but Mozilla Thunderbird also does IRC and you may have it around already.

irccloud.com also used to be nice.

[deafpolygon]

The gold standard for IRC anywhere is either; mIRC on windows, or irssi/weechat anywhere else.