Tired of Discord? Want to chat with your friends using that perfectly good Windows 98 machine? Well now you can spin up your own AIM server.

Tired of Discord? Want to chat with your friends using that perfectly good Windows 98 machine? Well now you can spin up your own AIM server.

  • Rimu@piefed.socialMEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I followed Veronica down this rabbit hole. The server part was beautifully easy.

    But sadly, there are no Linux AIM clients - pidgin dropped AIM support 8 years ago.

    I compiled an 8 year old version of pidgin from source and it ran but seems hardcoded to point to AIM’s official servers (which no longer exist).