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at least you had a friend to email! I couldn't get any of my friends to do it. "Man we can encrypt our emails." "But why..." "It'd be cool" "This seems hard." "Come on, exchange keys with me." "I don't want to make one."

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My high school friends and I settled for using Gain and Pidgin to enable the "secure" icon. :)

For awhile you could use Pidgin and OTR to even have secure messages through facebook's messenger. I'm not sure if they decrypted it or not, but it sure was fun.

Reminded me of my Adium days.

Back when I liked my messenger app on the Mac.

Apple has tried hard to degrade the experience of their built in messenger.

Been a hot minute since I've thought about Gaim. Thanks for the memories.

Yep, I meant Gaim. Damn you, autocorrect!

Gaim is just Pidgin's original name.

I assume he first used it when it was called Gaim, so he has stronger memories associated with that name than with Pidgin.

Ah, the good old days when I could just plug my IM services into one desktop app. I miss those days very much.

Now I use three Electron apps on a typical work day.

Matrix bridges do that for me today! Currently using IRC and Telegram bridges, thinking about adding Slack.

Sadly, Electron-based Element is still the best Matrix client by far.

The lack of thread support in Element makes Slack bridging very hard to use, sadly.

I needed some time to figure out you're not talking about multithreading in JavaScript/electron, but about this

https://github.com/vector-im/element-web/issues/2349

I still use Pidgin for Skype and Hangouts. For text only it's perfect:

- https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/purple-hangouts-git/ - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/purple-skypeweb-git/

Works even on old and crappy computers.

Rambox and Franz both do this today. They are electron apps but you only need one for all your services.

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