Colibri chat system (Discord-like thing based on ATProto)

Still a bit alpha, but looks promising. Several features seem to be waiting for atproto implementation.

colibri.social/

HEY HEY HEY, don’t get me wrong now but I’m seeing dozens of Discord-like apps over the past year and can’t understand one thing about them, which is WE ALREADY HAVE THE CHAT PART SINCE FUCKING 1988, it’s called IRC, it’s lightweight, not bloated, works everywhere, extendible and still maintained.

Discord (and Slack) are proprietary IRC forks themselves and adds almost NOTHING to that equation.

It’s the voice/video call part that Discord solved an none of these forks attempting to tackle that part.

i also use irc but it doesn’t work for normies. there’s no integrated persistant chat log, image/file upload, voice chats, replies(linking to specific message), message editing, emoji reactions, etc…

You must have never tried irc in conjunction with Convos or The Lounge

Edit: Fluxer is a usable alternative https://fluxer.app

i haven’t seen Convos before, thanks for sharing.

i’ve seen The Lounge before while looking for a discord alternative sometime ago, but i skipped it because there doesn’t seem to be replies, editing, reactions, file/image sharing. i have to admit i only tried their Demo link, perhaps libera just doesn’t support those IRCv3 features?