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h-1^[solo]<p>that moment of life when you discover, <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/irc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>irc</span></a> can be still amusing and make you <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/friday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>friday</span></a> morning just fine!</p>
sb arms & legs<p>I'm getting back on <a href="https://metroholografix.ca/tags/irc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>irc</span></a>. Where's the good shit these days?</p>
Feoh<p>I think the reason <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/irc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>irc</span></a> is so incompatible with some younger folks is that it's Slow Chat.</p><p>Like, we all work and have lives, we log onto the chat, answer some questions, chat some, maybe ask one of our own, and then wander away again.</p><p>I feel like easily 99% of the traffic on most Libera channels I see is like:</p><p>n00b: HEY HOW DO I DO $THING?<br></p><p>If you're gonna rock onto IRC, and PLEASE do, welcome! You've got to be willing to hang for a bit :) Treat it like an exercise in zen or something :) You'll be glad you did.</p>
1 tripod in 3 trenchcoats<p>Dear Abby, I never thought it would happen to me...</p><p>But I honestly just configured my <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/IRC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IRC</span></a> clients in a way that I prefer to other chat clients, and it does involve tmux (as byobu) and both irssi and weechat...</p><p>...and also bitlbee, znc, and ngircd.</p>
1 tripod in 3 trenchcoats<p>It feels a bit weird, but I just put a limnoria bot on our <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/irc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>irc</span></a> server and am thinking about bridging our <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/traveller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>traveller</span></a> channel with the one on <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/undernet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>undernet</span></a></p><p>What year was it again?</p>
🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦<p><span>So the Rblind.com </span><a href="https://fed.interfree.ca/tags/IRC" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag" target="_blank">#IRC</a><span> server is extremely busy! So busy, in fact, that it was down for four months and nobody noticed. Anyway, it's back now; irc.rblind.com if you want that. </span><a href="https://fed.interfree.ca/tags/blind" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag" target="_blank">#blind</a><span> </span><a href="https://fed.interfree.ca/tags/a11y" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag" target="_blank">#a11y</a></p>
#ircpuzzles<p>Less than one week to go before the 2025 ircpuzzles competition begins!</p><p><a href="https://blog.ircpuzzles.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">blog.ircpuzzles.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/IRC" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IRC</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/ircpuzzles" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ircpuzzles</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/puzzle" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>puzzle</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/puzzles" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>puzzles</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/game" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>game</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/games" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>games</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/LiberaChat" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LiberaChat</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/AprilFools" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AprilFools</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/AprilFoolsDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AprilFoolsDay</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/competition" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>competition</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/April" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>April</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/April1" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>April1</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@liberachat" class="u-url mention">@<span>liberachat</span></a></span></p>
DelegateVoid<p><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a> projects adopting <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/discord" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>discord</span></a> as their go-to platform for communication is such a terrible trend. <br>You'd expect more from developers, you'd expect they understand what's wrong with these centralized services, which are in fact not accessible for a very large number of people, and that they, instead would embrace open/distributed solutions. But I guess <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/discord" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>discord</span></a> is great for control freaks with all the rules that one can configure just for people to be able to hello! (I miss <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/irc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>irc</span></a>)</p>
anarcat<p>Matrix notes <a href="https://anarc.at/blog/2022-06-17-matrix-notes" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">anarc.at/blog/2022-06-17-matri</span><span class="invisible">x-notes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/matrix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>matrix</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/irc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>irc</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/debian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>debian</span></a>-planet <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>python</span></a>-planet <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/review" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>review</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>internet</span></a></p>
whitepaperkat<p>So tempted to run <a href="https://thecoldfish.ddns.net/tags/irc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IRC</span></a> server must resist I already have an <a href="https://thecoldfish.ddns.net/tags/xmpp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>xmpp</span></a> server</p>
Tariq<p>I just used <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IRC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IRC</span></a> for the first time in maybe 30 years!</p><p>(the Haskell beginners channel)</p>
marqle<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://babka.social/@kolev" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>kolev</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://floss.social/@gnome" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>gnome</span></a></span> </p><p>It's interesting how a lot of these <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/matrix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>matrix</span></a> rooms are a lot more tightly moderated than the <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/irc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>irc</span></a> rooms they replaced.</p><p>Though, as you say, it was probably always needed, and <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/matrixchat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>matrixchat</span></a> probably just added the ability.</p>
randomwizard<p>Been investigating IRC server software. Found this chart showing popularity from December of 2024.</p><p>So far, only Ergo and UnrealIRCd support chat history (saving messages for folks who were not logged in)</p><p><a href="https://www.ircstats.org/servers" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">ircstats.org/servers</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>internet</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/irc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>irc</span></a></p>
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Was reading old discussions about why did Slack win out over IRC (for some definition of win?)

tedium.co/2017/10/17/irc-vs-sl

Found these quotes interesting.

"Why is it, out of all the prominent internet protocols in use during the early ’90s, only two of them—email and the World Wide Web—have managed to hold on in a way where most people use them on a regular basis" -- Ernie Smith 2017

"Why did slack win?
Because whenever somebody asked for:
* 24/7 presence, the reply was "you can do that with a bouncer"
* backlog, the reply was "you can do that with a bouncer"
* full text search, the reply was "that's up to the client implementation"
* file sharing, the reply was "it's already possible with XDCC"

and so on and so forth.

Basically, it's not that Slack is great, it's because IRC as a whole just refused to adapt to what users actually wanted/needed." -- em6m 2020

Not saying I agree exactly, just interesting.

Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet.IRC vs. Slack: Why the Unicorn Won OutInternet Relay Chat beat Slack to real-time chat by decades and helped define much of our early online culture, yet way more people use Slack. Why is that?
#irc#discord#slack
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