I think it won’t be abandoned, but we have to find better ways of filtering out AI slop. There are already quite a few search engines with curated networks of personal sites.

Another option is we switch to a different protocol. But internet style networks are too useful for human communication to abandon, I think.

loops.video is in development, from the same dev who did Pixelfed

This is the answer! Most people will not ever install a new operating system.

Only tried issri on CLI Linux… Hexchat on windows I couldn’t eve get to connect lol. What are people using to keep IRC open, so you can look back on chats? Pretty new to it