The head of the Signal app has criticized plans in the EU to allow messengers to have backdoors to enable automatic searches for criminal content. Signal is considered one of the most secure messengers.
It was intended as an ICQ replacement, and its advocates even managed to sell it as that for many normies. It became supported, with federation or not, by many email service providers, social networks, and so on. Then that support mostly vanished. Its users percentages are not inspiring.
Both. In my surroundings QIP was popular, a Jabber client with an ICQ gateway added from the start or something like that (maybe it just was a client of both). And the whole “roster with buddies and IM windows” thing was definitely more ICQ than IRC inspired.
It was intended as an ICQ replacement, and its advocates even managed to sell it as that for many normies. It became supported, with federation or not, by many email service providers, social networks, and so on. Then that support mostly vanished. Its users percentages are not inspiring.
I think you mean IRC replacement.
Both. In my surroundings QIP was popular, a Jabber client with an ICQ gateway added from the start or something like that (maybe it just was a client of both). And the whole “roster with buddies and IM windows” thing was definitely more ICQ than IRC inspired.