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People use AIM because their friends use it. What IM protocol people use seems to vary from locale to locale (among the non-nerd types), probably just dependin
by Jebdm 17y ago
People use AIM because their friends use it. What IM protocol people use seems to vary from locale to locale (among the non-nerd types), probably just depending on which got used first.
I'd happily switch away from AIM (by that, I mean the protocol/servers, I use Bitlbee/irssi and Pidgin), except that a lot of the people I know use AIM exclusively.
- cubicle67 17y agoI'm pretty sure iChat uses the AIM protocol. I have no idea why.
- gommm 17y agoBetween msn messenger, yahoo instant messenger and aim, my experience is that the connection with AIM is much more stable (meaning less dropped messages). MSN is the worst of all three since it drops messages without any indication of it... What is interesting is that it's really segmented by countries... US is AIM and Jabber, Europe MSN, China QQ, Vietnam Yahoo Instant Messenger.... So I have to be on all five plus skype...
- riffic 17y agothis is the reason we need IM federation, and NOW.