Want to text someone across the room, without the Internet? Once upon a time, #Bonjour included a #chat feature based on #XMPP, where you could discover other people on your LAN and exchange text messages:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonjour_(software)
It appears that #Pidgin still supports Bonjour chat, I'm running it right now:
https://pidgin.im/help/protocols/bonjour/
At least it does in version 2, version 3 will need a rewrite:
https://lobste.rs/s/xlxqgl/pidgin_3_0_0_experimental_1_announcement#c_zcxi0r
What other Bonjour chat clients still exist, aside from Pidgin?
#zeroconf
Nelson
npub1wh…s94we
2025-02-04 00:22:52 UTC
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2025-02-04 00:22:52 UTCEvent JSON
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