12 comments

  • xnorswap a day ago 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 15 hours ago 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 20 hours ago 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 15 hours ago 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 15 hours ago 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 14 hours ago ago

          I see x links frequently shared even in communities that have a quite a few people already on bluesky etc.

      • ThePowerOfFuet 14 hours ago ago

        >This is the only social media where you get all important people using it.

        All important people use X? lmao

  • bathory a day ago ago

    X is shutting down... happy face Communities because of low usage and lots of spam not happy face

  • stevage a day ago ago

    Huh, I'd never heard of them.

  • phendrenad2 a day ago ago

    So they're monkey-branching from cloning Reddit to cloning Discord. Wonder if that'll work better for them.