Hi, since I’ve started using Lemmy, I’ve been running into the same people and having something approaching a relationship with them–even if it’s mostly imaginary.

It got me to wondering if there’s a community or form of community available on the internet that I haven’t tried yet that might actually lead to something approaching having friends.

So far Discord has been extremely meh; but I’ve heard of Mastodon and Peertube and Matrix and all kinds of weird stuff that is outside the mainstream.

Anyone have better success with different protocols?

  • acockworkorange@mander.xyzEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Persistent chat media like XMPP and Matrix are a decent middle ground, but I too, generally prefer the organization of topics of forums.

        • Tom@lemmy.world
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          5 days ago

          So? I still think it’s a lot nicer than matrix.
          and it can easily be made persistent but I prefer xmpp for that.
          xmpp is the best, I just don’t like the chatrooms as much as irc.

          Please don’t be pedantic. Communicating isn’t always about persistence.

        • acockworkorange@mander.xyzEnglish
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          5 days ago

          Yup, basic IRC (on which I spent many hours in the late 90s) does not persist. Either you’re online to get the message, or you don’t get it.