Anyone know of a decent local-LAN chat program?

I've tried the Bonjour (i.e. avahi) module for pidin but it's just unreliable.

I don't know whether it's pidgin that's the problem or whether it's because
avahi is more half-arsed Poettering garbage, but I've spent hours fucking
around with it on multiple occasions, think i've got it working OK, and then
the next time either I or my partner try to use it to send notes to each
other, it just doesn't fucking work.

I suspect, but am not sure, that either pidgin or avahi gets confused because
all machines on my LAN have multiple addresses on different subnets - this is
too useful for VMs and docker images and other stuff to even consider changing
just for a chat program.

If I had to, I could set up an irc or xmpp server or something but that seems
like overkill for this.

So, can anyone recommend a no-frills, no-fuss LAN chat that just works?  Even
tips on making pidgin + bonjour work reliably would be great.

Preferably something better than the ancient ytalk.

craig

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craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au>
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