I wouldn't be surprised that is how they lost the majority of their user base. Everyone I know was on it, myself included, but once support was hampered around the time the AIM protocol died, most people around me left for Telegram and Signal.

I dunno.. I guess I just follow what people use...

IRC

ICQ

MSN

Yahoo messenger for some people in japan

Whatsapp, but noboday was there haha

Whastapp, some people there

FB Messenger

iMessage, but bugs with normals SMS, so disabled it

Google talk.. used by some, but I like to de-google a bit.

Back to whatsapp

kakaotalk, line, and wechat for research / gaming

Telegram. don't like it at all

Signal. kind of buggy

So in the end, I'm using whatsapp ads it's still ubiquitous here, and it's one of the most secure platforms.

I followed the same path. Also used

Jabber a bit,

AOL Messenger,

Blackberry messenger,

Bloomberg Messenger (bank paid 2k per month for it!),

Skype for messaging,

Keybase (kind of cool but too heavy),

Slack,

and now Element Matrix.

Its one place sometimes I think regulation might be good to force standardization (like electricity or phone standards).

Oh and when I go to asia I use the ones there - viber, line, wechat etc.

>Bloomberg Messenger (bank paid 2k per month for it!),

Nice https://memegenerator.net/img/instances/24953235/nice.jpg

It's amazing how much spinning happens in current media. The only people in the world who truly know how much this is are those who get the headlines before the stories are written and talked about, like day traders, who get it for speed reasons. It's cool, but it sucks it costs so much to get an unfiltered news source.

For me it was

IRC

ICQ

AIM

Trillian

Skype

Slack (just co-workers)

Discord (just co-workers that are friends now)

Must be like over a 30 year period of time.