> but not that much that they'd be ready to exit Emacs.

There's great news for the people who want to talk to other people and NOT exit emacs - you can get IRC built straight in.

https://github.com/emacs-circe/circe

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gentooflux 4 days ago | parent [-]

Try as I might, I have not been successful in getting my wife to use IRC. I guess I should take that as a sign that she just doesn't want to talk to me...

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d0mine 4 days ago | parent [-]

There is a telegram client for emacs: telega.el https://github.com/zevlg/telega.el

The installation instructions are scary but It has been straightforward to install melpa version via use-package with telega-server in docker.

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luqtas 4 days ago | parent [-]

and a Matrix client! https://github.com/alphapapa/ement.el

	▲	kogasa240p 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		XMPP too, but no OMEMO encryption.