Chat Room
07-30-2018, 07:22 PM
I'm sorry. I don't work in computer science or anything, I'm just a hobbyist.
IRC is a reliable, tried and true chat protocol and Matrix is a fairly new and more extensive network that you can use to connect to IRC. Both of those involve registering identities that can be connected to your offline life (employment, family, etc.) in a reasonably analagous way that Facebook profiles do.
Most webchats don't work for me because they require javascript that I don't use for philosophical reasons:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-sour...nt.en.html
so it's a bit more complicated than just buying a new device, more like remembering to bring a sandwich if your religion involves not eating pork and you're in a mixed religion group. I've been using lookalike forum software for years so it's kind of exciting and unusual to me to find usable webchat on the real deal.
IRC is a reliable, tried and true chat protocol and Matrix is a fairly new and more extensive network that you can use to connect to IRC. Both of those involve registering identities that can be connected to your offline life (employment, family, etc.) in a reasonably analagous way that Facebook profiles do.
Most webchats don't work for me because they require javascript that I don't use for philosophical reasons:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-sour...nt.en.html
so it's a bit more complicated than just buying a new device, more like remembering to bring a sandwich if your religion involves not eating pork and you're in a mixed religion group. I've been using lookalike forum software for years so it's kind of exciting and unusual to me to find usable webchat on the real deal.