The state of #InstantMessaging in 2025: I have one virtual workspace dedicated solely to #IM clients. They occupy 820 MB of memory, which is actually an improvement since the last time I checked.
But I still miss the days when all I needed was #Pidgin.
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in reply to Jiří Eischmann • • •@theron29 I had been checking this just last week and you can use signal completely without smart phone, you just have to be able to access SMS messages or calls.
It isn't nice and not exactly easy but also not really hard. Just use signal-cli and register an account:
github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/wi…
I managed to get rate limited first time as I screwed something with captcha couple times, but next day everything worked.
Registration with captcha
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Plus Signal has no web client and Matrix and Telegram don't have web clients of the same quality. Just with Slack there is feature and quality parity.
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2025-09-12 16:39:35