xnorswap 2 days ago
I read "We are investing heavily in XChat" and was really confused for a second, having used xchat as my main IRC client back in the day.

I hadn't realised that it was now long defunct, with its last release in 2010.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XChat_(IRC_client)

0x10ca1h0st 19 hours ago
The nostalgia. I did not much use XChat, but did use custom IRC clients like irssi that were capable of backdooring MSN chat rooms and had the ability to utilize many custom scripts.
thot_experiment 24 hours ago
You know, I don't think the scams and spam are because of the design of the "Communities" tool but because those are the only people left using the website.
simianwords 19 hours ago
Why do people believe this? This kind of hyperbole is useless and annoying. This is the only social media where you get all important people using it.
thot_experiment 19 hours ago
I believe it because it's basically fact? I used to see twitter referenced all the time and I would even participate in the app, now it's kind of a wasteland.
fouc 18 hours ago
I see x links frequently shared even in communities that have a quite a few people already on bluesky etc.
ThePowerOfFuet 18 hours ago
>This is the only social media where you get all important people using it.

All important people use X? lmao

simianwords 17 hours ago
Who doesn’t use?
beAbU 14 hours ago
Trump, for one.
bathory 2 days ago
X is shutting down... happy face Communities because of low usage and lots of spam not happy face
stevage 2 days ago
Huh, I'd never heard of them.
phendrenad2 2 days ago
So they're monkey-branching from cloning Reddit to cloning Discord. Wonder if that'll work better for them.