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    Ding dong the witch is dead

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      Around these parts in the 2000s, MSN Messenger was what literally everyone used. Then Microsoft bought Skype and decided to shut down MSN Messenger. Then they also ruined Skype. Microsoft just can't do anything right despite making so much money. It's like they have no long term vision.

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      I would say this heavily depends on the region. In Germany, I knew nobody who used MSN, everyone only used ICQ.

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        I would say this heavily depends on the region. In Germany, I knew nobody who used MSN, everyone only used ICQ.

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        Man, I miss icq...

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          I would say this heavily depends on the region. In Germany, I knew nobody who used MSN, everyone only used ICQ.

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          That's why I said around these parts. Back then there was a lot more regional fragmentation.

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              Embrace, extend, extinguish.

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              Yes, which makes me wonder on the old question if it's possible to create a distributed IM as prolific as bittorrent protocol.

              In that last example they did something right. At some point I liked ed2k+kad and would swear at bittorrent for not incorporating search, reputation and such as basic components, but maybe that's what made torrents survive when other filesharing tools went out of common knowledge.

              I'm going to think on this.

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                Who? Never heard of him

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                • sibachian@lemmy.mlS [email protected]

                  i realize i haven't been able to send files for years now because all the p2p platforms have disappeared.

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                  https://lemmy.world/comment/15367515 - yes ; so I think the idea of an IM that could replace it with the functionality normal for it belongs not to the tech realm (all parts solved separately), but to social studies and market studies realm. Somehow there is a technology that has defeated all competition thrown at it, it's called bittorrent.

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                    I remember when Skype first came out, when I was a teenager. I called a random guy in Japan; he was learning English, I wanted to learn Japanese (as is tradition for teenage anime fans). It was a very kind series of calls, and we talked a bit about Japanese culture too. He taught me, rather patiently, how to pronounce certain basic words properly.
                    It's a shame the service was treated like it has been. There was great potential in connecting people.

                    Wherever you are, random Japanese dude I forgot the name of, konbanwa!!

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                      They killed it as soon as they acquired it.

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                        I totally forgot it exists, meaning I thought it was already dead.

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                          That's fine I'll just use Lync.

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                            Well, they’re doing what they already have been and absorbing it into teams. Teams video chat is littered with the bits of leftover Skype tech references, they’re just making sure it’s an enterprise product they can bill monthly for instead of a free consumer product

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                            I find 365 to be a terrible mess if applications, outlook and teams have a calendar separate to the calendar app. Teams sucks

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                              Skype? Wasn't this the buggy voice chat?

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                                They are not killing Skype, they just now bury the corpse. Skype died by malnutrion and bad parenting by MS a decade ago.

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                                I was going to say it couldn't have been a decade but then I realized the last time I used Skype was about 2015 2016...

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                                  That's why I said around these parts. Back then there was a lot more regional fragmentation.

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                                  Around my region, South America, everybody used MSN as well. We went through a phase of using Skype, but it was too resource heavy in comparison with MSN. Later on, people who needed voice chat for games played around with several different apps, until we finally settled with Discord back in 2016. Say all you want about Discord, but I've been using it for almost a decade at this point, and if your need is to have voice and text chat and easy screen sharing for gaming, it's basically the golden standard. The problem started when people started using it as a replacement for forums.

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                                    Around these parts in the 2000s, MSN Messenger was what literally everyone used. Then Microsoft bought Skype and decided to shut down MSN Messenger. Then they also ruined Skype. Microsoft just can't do anything right despite making so much money. It's like they have no long term vision.

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                                    Where I live, everyone used AOL Instant Messenger, or AIM for short. It was popular with teens because it offered chat rooms, but that meant it was also a popular hunting ground for predators. Nearly every terminally online teen from the early 2000’s has a story about getting groomed on AIM, by someone they initially thought was their own age.

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                                      Good! They could have cornered the market during Covid, but fumbled the ball.

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                                      When COVID started there already where shitload of apps that could do voice. They killed it long time ago by simply making it hard to use, the interface was a complete mess. In the meantime for example there was already Whatsapp dominant with easy to use interface and controls

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                                        You mean teams... No! You mean new teams! No! You mean teams for home use and teams for work! No! You mean new experience teams! Maybe you mean blue teams for use on a moving vehicle between 25 and 60mph on a Wednesday with the windows open while talking to exactly 2 or your close friends who are wearing blue blazers and jeans while drinking coffee but not from Starbucks at their house but not the bedroom and having their living rooms painted magenta in water color teams? Is it that teams? I'm a little confused as to what teams I'm using. I only use it at work because fuck no, I will never use it at home.

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                                          They killed it as soon as they acquired it.

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                                          It because a bloated pile of garbage after they bought it. Remember how horrible the app became with battery usage??

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