Notices by gecko (exelotl@raru.re)

@Rasp @Miaourt I'm not sure tbh, when I typed 'threads.net' into the search a few accounts showed up so I assumed that meant yes

hey @Miaourt I was wondering if you had any thoughts on R3 defederating from facebook/threads?

(personally I think we should, I haven't seen many others here mention it though)

Well, we finally did it, the game is out (digitally, for GBA)!!!

https://goodboygalaxy.itch.io/goodboy-galaxy-gba #gbadev

@technomancy @suricrasia for the gbadev discord I run ircord (https://github.com/Yardanico/ircord) which does a bunch of things quite well:
- detects bold, italic, newline etc. and makes them look OK on irc
- detects edits and shows a diff of what changed instead of reposting the entire message
- detects long messages / code snippets and calls out to a pastebin service instead of sending a multi-line monstrosity (I had to make a fork to stop it linking to the Nim playground though, as it was made for that one community)

@obsidianical @ipg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMPP#Non-native_deployments

There was a brief moment in time where everyone used the same federated instant messaging protocol.

You could make an account on say, jabber.org or any other XMPP provider, and use it to chat to a friend even if they were using Facebook or Google Talk.

Eventually I guess the giants realised it was more profitable to hoarde all the users, rather than afford the maintenance burden of running common infrastructure for the greater good. So they defederated, and now almost nobody uses XMPP.