deaf_fish

Hosting a chat room meant you had to self host or trust someone else’s server.

There is no concept of groups. So you had to create several channels with some kind of naming scheme. There is no way to see them in a group. You just need to know about them as a chatter.

History is not saved by default. Most used a 3rd party server to host a history log, which is more work.

There is no audio, video, screen sharing.

You can’t reply to a chat with an emoji. You can’t edit your previous chats.

You can’t reply to a specific chat unless you get specific like copying the original chat.

Don’t get me wrong. I hated that discord owns most of the communication online.

I wish there was a simple and easy to use open source tool that did all of that in a single package.

I don’t mind self-hosting but if I have to self-host several interacting services that I need to update manually, it becomes a pain.

In a capitalist economic system, you can never be sure.

Lying as a politician.

Leftist here. We do. Remember Bernie. We still doing shit like that.

I like it, but I need to figure out how to link to another comment from my comment in such a way that any user on any instance can follow the link without having to deal with switching the URL to their instance.