2000: your conversation medium is a standard protocol with a native client on every platform
2010: your conversation medium is a website
2015: your conversation medium is a web app
2017: your conversation medium is an app only available on Android and iOS
@KitRedgrave @val Hah! Did someone say 'guestbook'?
@val And man is that a piss off :x
startup idea: RPG Maker, but for chat applications
What if the galactic singularity in xkcd's "Team Chat" (https://xkcd.com/1782/) is running on Amazon Lambda?
@val And then despite "2000" providing the same functionality (often way more), people dig their nails into "2017" when you ask for some other way to contact them :|
@mhu2141ai "What do you mean you can't install our iOS app?"
@val 2000 was pretty much just a phone
2018: your conversation medium is analogue, and comprises your 3D body with no digital interface.
@val @mhu2141ai I'm glad to avoid the latter. Things that go 'what is desktop? You have a PHONE. Phones are the best for chat, why would you want anything else? There's nothing wrong with a small screen and touch keyboard' can join the list of things to be burnt into nonexistence.
@val 2018: fix the walled garden problem? 🤞🤞
@val And only on Google Play, because fuck you if you don't worship Google.
@val Yeah, that's it. Even if you find another way to download from GP almost everything on there is broken without Google services. Developers even barely get a chance to test their apps without Google services.
@val And here I am, using IRC bridges for anything, for ever and ever
@val
2022: you need to use your ID card to connect to you conversation medium. (already the case in China, if I'm not mistaken)
2025: your conversation medium is sent totally plain on the network because "THINK OF THE CHILDREN and TERRORISTS"
2030: you don"t have conversation medium anymore, you can only speak to Amazon-Google-Disney Home now.
1988: your conversation medium is fresh air between you and your mate filling public space round the corner.
... still not depricated.
@val
and this shit is why i am trying to get my friends to use matrix.
@juliebean Matrix still requires a powerful server to join rooms with a long history, though
@val
really? is it more demanding than a mastodon server? i haven't really looked into the demands of it, but it at least seems a better option than discord or kik or whatever.
@juliebean I heard that when joining a room, Synapse maximizes CPU usage for quite some time.
Mastodon's CPU usage is quite reasonable (but not its memory usage, because Ruby/RoR)
@val 2019: your conversation medium only runs on your particular network provider, and only at certain times of day
@val 2018, I still use email and I'm happy with it. #socialNetwork
@val just how fucked we are. Use IRC and Jabber mates.
@val 2018: fediverse integrates chat, we now have a Good Chat Platform that works on mobile
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@val Jodel, the page is misogynistic and cringy https://jodel.com/fr/
@val 2020: Skype is mandatory
@val 2018: your conversation medium betrayed you, back to irc in a rush