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Today I was reminded that old online chats offered context awareness for the people online: you knew you won't be a bother to a friend who has a smiley flower as a status; and you knew you might not be getting a quick reply from someone who's Away.
Today I don't even know if my friends are online or not. The messenger apps make the assumption that everyone is online, and if not, they will receive a push notification, and will reply to you as soon as possible. But this assumption is barely true. I bet it makes lives harder, especially for ND people
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@nina_kali_nina Does having ICQ #3030280 get me any street cred? :-)
@jmhorner it does, especially because it doesn't look like a stolen ID ("hey I'm such a h4x0r I got my pretty ID from someone who didn't need it")
@nina_kali_nina I haven't logged in to it in a long time... but I am pretty sure mail.ru is still running it these days.
@jmhorner I don't think so! But there's Nina Chat and Escargot - https://nina.chat and https://escargot.chat