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		guerrilla on May 25, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ICQ will stop working from June 26 These all suck comapred to Pidgen. Pidgen was one UI. This is just a bunch of webapps shoved into the same window/app and it's ugly and awkward as all fuck to use.

lproven on May 25, 2024 | [–]

Yes, agreed.

But it's still a lot better than 5, 6, 10 different apps.

Also, it's "Pidgin", as in "pidgin English."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pidgin

It's a word, not a weird made-up name.

exadeci on May 27, 2024 | [–]

https://www.beeper.com/ has been my main chat app aggregator, it's not perfect but works for most cases

You can also self host it

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