"Platforms can be killed, but protocols are forever." -Veronica Explains

Here, Veronica discusses how to set up your own AIM server. And also, once more reminding that we should probably look into alternative means of reconnecting with each other.

I don't have the grumption to setup my own AIM server (yet), but I've mostly returned to using Jabber/XMPP. Because the protocol has yet to let me down, but Discord will (and honestly, already has).