#icq

Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2025-06-17

@derekmorr

Let it go, already. No one uses MobileCoin. You can’t even find an exchange to buy it.

Then why does @signalapp still have that shit in it? @Mer__edith could've pulled that #Shitcoin yet refuses to do do!

The Cloud Act is a non-issue. Signal doesn’t have data on users, so they can’t be forced to disclose it.

That's literally wrong!

  • #Signal not only collects #PII in the form of a #PhoneNumher but explicitly is able and willing to use that to dsicriminate against users and restrict app functionality based off their presumed juristiction. There is no "legitimate interest" for.doing so nor any legal mandate to do so (unless we excuse the ehole #MobileCoin-#Scam!)

It’s been 30 years, and no one uses xmpp. Let it go.

Wrong again. Otherwise there wouldn't be thriving ecosystems and Apps to this day. It's just that corporate shills refuse to acknowledge that Signal - like all centralized, proprietary, #SingleVendor and/or #SingleProvider kessengers before and after - will inevitably die as their business model is not sustainable. Sake with #ICQ really. The only exceptions are those that abolish #privacy for #profit, integrate actually working payments or sellout to a #cyberfacist #government (all those apply to #WeChat!)

It’s shocking that people who claim to care about security and privacy push niche apps with terrible UX and no PFS like Delta or XMPP instead of the only private messenger with any real market share, Signal.

You know what's shocking to me: People who are unable or rather unwilling.to acknowledge that Signal is garbage and it's requirement for a #PhoneNumber kills any #privacy benefits it may have on paper by virtue of being at best pseudonymous (assuming the userd don't live in a juristiction that demands "#KYC" for even prepaid #SIM cards (ime. #Germany) or god forbid even #IMEI|s (i.e. #Turkey has a literal allowlist that'll kick any device off it's MNOs after 90 days within 365 days.

  • The #UScentric approach to #privacy and #threats makes Signal absolutely useless in many cases, and I do speak here from experience.

I'd rather help people onboard #XMPP+#OMEMO like @monocles and/or @gajim or #PGP/MIME like @delta & @thunderbird (incl. setting them up with #Orbot / #TorBrowserBundle / @tails_live so their traffic gets through @torproject and doesn't provide any useable IP addresses.

  • I've literally been there and done that!

As for #Sustainability, providers like monocles.eu finance themselves by subscriptions (starting at €2 p.m.) which people can pay fully anonymous using #CashByMail and #Monero on top of common payment methods (i.e. SEPA wire transfer)...

  • So even if you think "#monocles is a #honeypot" that is mitigateable ciz unlike with Signal you can choose your own client, choose a different provider & exervise self-custody of all tue keys!
2025-06-11

@ErickaSimone @GeePawHill Cool video, but uh is that an #ICQ hat??

2025-06-08

cleaning up password entries ... kind missing the old days, but I guess it ain't coming back

#ICQ

Message box asking: move entry ICQ to recycle bin?
Gary "grim" Kramlichgrimmy
2025-05-23

Greetings Programs!! We''re continuing where we left off last night pulling the past protocol support of @pidgin instead the feature to help preserve the code and make it easier for people to play around with the retro chat networks that have popped up over the past few years!

twitch.tv/rw_grim
youtube.com/@rw_grim

Gary "grim" Kramlichgrimmy
2025-05-23

Greetings Programs!! We're up to something a bit different tonight, some might even say a bit retro... Come on by and see what it is!!

twitch.tv/rw_grim/
youtube.com/@rw_grim

2025-05-17

@vetgaming

Kaum zu glauben, was wir uns alles mal angetan haben!
🤓

Von dem Layout bekomme ich heute spontan Kopfschmerzen…
😁
#retro #nostalgia #icq #website #2001 #history #webhistory

Ericka SimoneErickaSimone
2025-05-17

First person to bring back might save the world.

2025-05-12

Последний звонок: прощаемся со Skype

Интернет научил нас расставаться с прошлым без сантиментов: на смену уходящим проектам всегда приходят новые. Но когда я услышал о закрытии Skype, в моей душе что-то дрогнуло. Для меня «Скайп» стал не просто еще одним привычным мессенджером: когда-то он был единственным способом услышать родной голос, увидеть лицо близкого человека, сказать «я рядом», даже если между вами тысячи километров и шесть часовых поясов. Теперь Skype выключают — и кажется, будто во дворе решили снести старую детскую площадку, на которую ты давно не заглядывал, но вдруг вспомнил, сколько счастливых часов провел там в компании старых друзей. Два десятилетия — немалый срок, и за это время Skype стал частью нашей повседневной жизни, местом для радостных встреч и деловых переговоров, свидетелем коротких поздравлений с праздниками и долгих ночных бесед. Самое время оглянуться назад и вспомнить, как это было.

habr.com/ru/articles/908570/

#Skype #zoom #whatsapp #ICQ #qip #мессенджеры

Grzegorz Surmann :verified:sinuspl@mstdn.funil.de
2025-05-07
Bohdan Korablov 🇺🇦🇺🇸bados@fosstodon.org
2025-05-07
Stefan Ihringercompfu@mograph.social
2025-05-05

I'm now old enough to have survived 2 communication apps that everybody was using at some point.

#ICQ

2025-04-30

Au fait, Skype disparaît le 5 mai 2025, sur quoi basculez-vous (si vous l'utilisiez) ?

#Skype #Teams #MSN #XMPP #Jabber #ICQ

Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2025-04-08
Clean DesignCleanDesign
2025-04-05

I was reading a story today about and how if you leave an “&” symbol at the end of an , it means you want the recipient to reply back. Does anyone remember this or still do this today? I don’t recall that being a thing or maybe it was and I didn’t notice. Gonna tag below with adjacent words in hopes of response.

@ActionRetro #486

VetcGamingvetgaming
2025-03-27

ICQ website in 2001 --> #2001

2025-03-14

"Everybody yapping "AGI achieved internally".

Life was easier in 2000s... ringtone debt scarier than agi.

source: Interview with 2000s PC User."

x.com/KaiLentit/status/1876301

#KaiLentit #x #twitter #techhumor #icq #2000 #msn #ai #agi

Paul Schoonhoven 🍋🍉vosje62@mastodon.nl
2025-03-12

/2

🎶 #ICQ message

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Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2025-03-10

@DeltaWye @colinstu still, #Discord will inevitably die from #Enshittification, just like #ICQ, #Signal, #Telegram, #AIM, #Skype, #MSN, etc.

  • So far, my bets on #IRC & #XMPP are paying off dividents!
2025-03-02

@renehamburg damals bezüglich #Jabber und #ICQ schon mein Gedanke:

Sollte im Play Store einen #Matrix Messenger geben der sich per Handynummer einrichten lässt.
Quasi Noob freundlich...

Nun also doch!
Wenn ich mich nicht irre habe ich mich irgendwas um 2005 bei #Skype registriert und es auch eine ganze Weile genutzt. Zu Mai wird der Dienst eingestellt ...
Irgendwie schade, war es doch ein Urgestein, ähnlich wie #ICQ - aber zuletzt auch immer weniger von Bedeutung.

Und nun?
Naja, für den Ottonormalnutzer kann ich @signalapp empfehlen. Die #fedianer unter uns kennen ihre Alternative vermutlich schon! ;-)

Quelle: skype.com/de/

#messenger #kommunikation

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