> > Now with Zoom, Slack, MS Teams, Webex(Teams/Spark), etc I’m back in the > world where I used to have a common client like Adium that aggregated it > all together and don’t have that option really these days. Ideally the > services would work on some sort of federation/interop but there’s not a > lot of motivation/justification for that.
Yeah Adium was very nice to aggregate all the things in a single place. But yeah, the decade+ trend has to move away from federation/interop since more tightly controlled ecosystems push those magical engagement numbers up. On Thu, Aug 21, 2025 at 10:01 AM Jared Mauch via NANOG < [email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Aug 20, 2025, at 11:44 PM, steve ulrich via NANOG < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > the lindy effect for email is particularly strong in some communities. > NANOG seems to be one of them. > > I think that for some of us, e-mail was the original version of IM, as it > was/is the common cross-systems way to communicate with each other. I was > horrified when I was forced to sign up for an AIM account with one company > but grew to be ok with it as a way to reach colleagues. > > If you were always online, you could have a bot manage your presence on > IRC to maintain history and other elements, but these days you take > something like Slack/Discord and whatnot and it’s very much like that but > “in the cloud” as a service vs having to each run your own bot. > > It also doesn’t have the annoying/confusing IETF-type stuff that was in > the Jabber protocol where you could have per-device presences that are > different and lost messages because they sent something to a machine or > device that won’t be online for a few days. > > Now with Zoom, Slack, MS Teams, Webex(Teams/Spark), etc I’m back in the > world where I used to have a common client like Adium that aggregated it > all together and don’t have that option really these days. Ideally the > services would work on some sort of federation/interop but there’s not a > lot of motivation/justification for that. > > - Jared > _______________________________________________ > NANOG mailing list > > https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/SGD77SH6HZE67QJLRQZBNNJNWXQ3PLKG/ _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/QS62NV2WXUNAK6EFWDP3LZARQQY66QCD/
