A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.
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- Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn’t great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
- Don’t promote proprietary software
- Try to keep things on topic
- If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
- Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
- Be nice :)
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For us Gen-X’ers it was the age old, “I don’t use MSN chat, I use ICQ, someone else uses Yahoo chat.” Pidgin helped in those days.
I’m old enough for Trillian, before Pidgin was usable.
Damn, those are some words I haven’t seen in a very long time, wow… Trillian.
“I can finally make the vague emo song lyrics in my AIM profile look even cooler.”
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I paid for a Trillian license back in the day it made my life so much better. All my school friends were AIM, sports friends MSN, church friends mostly in Yahoo, internet friends on a mix. Trillian was an amazing find for me.
I didn’t even realize you could pay for it, pretty sure I had a pirated copy.
I also used it for talking to friends from church, but I guess I had an older brother who taught me the ways of “warez” lol
Oh man, I totally forgot about Trillian. The days where everything was heading towards XMPP then it all exploded away from it again.
XMPP did it to itself, it left stuff like file transfers, audio/video calls, custom emojis, all undefined in the standard and left for the clients to create their own extensions… which they made, incompatible between each other.