28 Mar
2024
28 Mar
'24
2:36 p.m.
Hello!
Long time listener, first time caller.
On 28 Mar 2024, at 14:24, Alan Pope via BitFolk Users
<users(a)mailman.bitfolk.com> wrote:
Hi Andy,
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My teenage kids see Email as "old people letters", which are only helpful for
resetting your Fortnite or Pinterest password and not much more. Similarly, I now see IRC
as "old people chat", while fully getting that I am a member of the "old
people" group.
Interesting, I think I see it similarly these days. I tend to use it just for
communicating with businesses, and only tend to use it to talk to friends if I know
they’re out of contact for long periods of time. Though I’m not sure when the last time
that was. Oh, and occasionally sending files to someone if they’re less than 25MB.
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Essentially, none of the options are amazing. For me,
Telegram is the least worst, and Discord is the worst, with Matrix, Signal, and IRC lumped
in the "meh" department. I have them all open all the time on every machine,
with notifications off, and dip in as and when I have time or the inclination.
Is that for clients, the features, the experience the people on it? Since I’ve moved onto
Mastodon from Twitter, I’ve found it easier to find things I want to see/read (lots of
bloom scrolling these days), but the experience to how I use it feels much like using
Tweetdeck in days gone by. So I think I find it better just by the people/content, so’I’d
interested what makes up your views of those.
Matt Daubney