It feels weird to me that the state of tech means having a billion apps for chat and no unified system for consuming those chats.
Like, why is it I need to jump through hoops to get my signal and telegram channels in one place.
Modern tech really can't compare to scifi in terms of being useful and cool.
@mauve Long ago, email was like chat is now, you could only send messages to people on the same system, and so had to maintain accounts on all of them - AOL, Dialcom, GeoNet, Source, etc. Now that seems absurd, but its the same pattern that has repeated for chat. The change came when the federated email servers using RFC822 exceeded those of the isolated walled-gardens at which point the walls came down.
@mauve I use https://one.element.io because of this problem. It includes a couple of the available bridges: https://matrix.org/bridges/
@pguth Same! I have an instance managed by etke.cc that set all the bridges up for me :o
@mauve Uh, nice! I've been missing the Discord integration on my instance. Which option do you use?
@pguth I use etke.cc to manage the deployment on a VM that I own. Ends up being like 20-30 CAD a month with all the costs? Most of it is the VM though
@mauve i kinda disagree, when you look into most sci-fi tech it's just flashy nonsense that breaks all the time (because most of it runs WINDOWS)... they may have 1 standard communication method but they don't have it work whenever needed