• toynbee@lemmy.world
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      11 hours ago

      Apparently at least one person is working, fairly successfully, on a server clone. I think it was this one, but I only know about it from one YouTube video I watched weeks ago.

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        3 hours ago

        Sadly Pidgin dropped oscar (aim protocol) support years ago because undeveloped and insecure. So either install a plugin or use the old clients.

        On the up side, a complete understanding of the server protocol means new clients can be written.

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          3 hours ago

          I didn’t know Pidgin had dropped it, but yeah - the video I saw as well as the git page linked both reference the original client. Is Trillian still around? What about Adium?