I will use IRC until my last dying breath, both libera.chat for public chats and one on a tildes server for a smaller community of computer weirdos (weird in the best way possible).
I use matrix for things like Ubuntu Studio community chat which have given up on IRC because it’s “not popular” or whatever ;) I used to strongly dislike matrix, but now that I’ve put the recovery key in my password manager, I only mildly dislike it.
For non-open source, I’m still on Google messages (gross) for RCS/MMS/SMS, Signal for cool people and my therapist (I guess shes cool too—the only person I’ve successfully brought to signal), Bluebubbles for my family who all have iDevices, Discord for work social chat, Slack for the one makerspace who uses it, and email…
Things I’ve successfully distanced from after using a lot:
WhatsApp. This is a challenge because a lot of cool group chats in my IRL community are here.
FB messenger. I still have friends on Facebook. Or I should say, people I’ve lost touch with are still on Facebook.
IG: I log into this account once every 6mo or so to contact people that I only have on here.
Specifically open source?
I will use IRC until my last dying breath, both libera.chat for public chats and one on a tildes server for a smaller community of computer weirdos (weird in the best way possible).
I use matrix for things like Ubuntu Studio community chat which have given up on IRC because it’s “not popular” or whatever ;) I used to strongly dislike matrix, but now that I’ve put the recovery key in my password manager, I only mildly dislike it.
For non-open source, I’m still on Google messages (gross) for RCS/MMS/SMS, Signal for cool people and my therapist (I guess shes cool too—the only person I’ve successfully brought to signal), Bluebubbles for my family who all have iDevices, Discord for work social chat, Slack for the one makerspace who uses it, and email…
Things I’ve successfully distanced from after using a lot: