[tde-users] Re: AOL chat server replica in the wild?

On Thursday 23 January 2025 04:18:39 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via tde-users wrote: When I was a much younger man (back in the Bible days), I used AIM and ICQ, then I found various multiprotocol applications (but forget the names), then at last discovered xmpp/jabber, especially with OTR and other security features. I don't think I've used anything else in nearly twenty years. And nowadays, I don't even know anybody who is using xmpp/jabber; or at least, nobody who wants to use it to chat with me. However, if anybody really wants to use AIM and ICQ, I wonder why not just try one of those multiprotocol apps? Nowadays I use psi-plus, which handles my xmpp/jabber needs; although I don't currently chat with anybody, I find it comforting to know that my jabber IDs are still alive, so that I can use it if I want. More to the point of this thread, though, is that psi-plus (and, I imagine, other similar apps) has some kind of transports that will allow use of the AIM and ICQ (and other?) networks. So for me, at least -- at least, in theory -- there is no need to look further. I don't suppose anybody out there has heard of psi-plus? Or, if there are other such programs, I might be curious. I have already been through Pidgin, have used kopete and kopete-trinity, etc., but it's been awhile since I explored chat programs. Bill