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I wouldn't be surprised that is how they lost the majority of their user base. Everyone I know was on it, myself included, but once support was hampered around

I wouldn't be surprised that is how they lost the majority of their user base. Everyone I know was on it, myself included, but once support was hampered around the time the AIM protocol died, most people around me left for Telegram and Signal.

jbverschoor 6y ago
I dunno.. I guess I just follow what people use... IRC ICQ MSN Yahoo messenger for some people in japan Whatsapp, but noboday was there haha Whastapp, some people there FB Messenger iMessage, but bugs with normals SMS, so disabled it Google talk.. used by some, but I like to de-google a bit. Back to whatsapp kakaotalk, line, and wechat for research / gaming Telegram. don't like it at all Signal. kind of buggy So in the end, I'm using whatsapp ads it's still ubiquitous here, and it's one of the most secure platforms.
- anthony_barker 6y ago
  I followed the same path. Also used Jabber a bit, AOL Messenger, Blackberry messenger, Bloomberg Messenger (bank paid 2k per month for it!), Skype for messaging, Keybase (kind of cool but too heavy), Slack, and now Element Matrix. Its one place sometimes I think regulation might be good to force standardization (like electricity or phone standards). Oh and when I go to asia I use the ones there - viber, line, wechat etc.
  - coding123 6y ago
    For me it was IRC ICQ AIM Trillian Skype Slack (just co-workers) Discord (just co-workers that are friends now) Must be like over a 30 year period of time.
  - proverbialbunny 6y ago
    >Bloomberg Messenger (bank paid 2k per month for it!), Nice https://memegenerator.net/img/instances/24953235/nice.jpg https://memegenerator.net/img/instances/24953235/nice.jpg It's amazing how much spinning happens in current media. The only people in the world who truly know how much this is are those who get the headlines before the stories are written and talked about, like day traders, who get it for speed reasons. It's cool, but it sucks it costs so much to get an unfiltered news source.

jbverschoor 6y ago

I dunno.. I guess I just follow what people use... IRC ICQ MSN Yahoo messenger for some people in japan Whatsapp, but noboday was there haha Whastapp, some people there FB Messenger iMessage, but bugs with normals SMS, so disabled it Google talk.. used by some, but I like to de-google a bit. Back to whatsapp kakaotalk, line, and wechat for research / gaming Telegram. don't like it at all Signal. kind of buggy So in the end, I'm using whatsapp ads it's still ubiquitous here, and it's one of the most secure platforms.

anthony_barker 6y ago
I followed the same path. Also used Jabber a bit, AOL Messenger, Blackberry messenger, Bloomberg Messenger (bank paid 2k per month for it!), Skype for messaging, Keybase (kind of cool but too heavy), Slack, and now Element Matrix. Its one place sometimes I think regulation might be good to force standardization (like electricity or phone standards). Oh and when I go to asia I use the ones there - viber, line, wechat etc.
- coding123 6y ago
  For me it was IRC ICQ AIM Trillian Skype Slack (just co-workers) Discord (just co-workers that are friends now) Must be like over a 30 year period of time.
- proverbialbunny 6y ago
  >Bloomberg Messenger (bank paid 2k per month for it!), Nice https://memegenerator.net/img/instances/24953235/nice.jpg https://memegenerator.net/img/instances/24953235/nice.jpg It's amazing how much spinning happens in current media. The only people in the world who truly know how much this is are those who get the headlines before the stories are written and talked about, like day traders, who get it for speed reasons. It's cool, but it sucks it costs so much to get an unfiltered news source.