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Anonymous: 2023-04-20 10:02:35

Stumbled upon this quote:

>A friend pointed out that the migration of non-hackers away from IRC is like a reverse Eternal September, which sounds great

Sounds interesting. Do you guys know some active servers and chans? All I could find is either slow/dead or exclusively FSF.

Honestly i think IRC is just kinda dying. the channels might be full but no one is talking. it's mostly bots. or bridges relaying stuff to discord or other platforms. no one seems to be actually using IRC directly anymore.

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Anonymous: 2023-04-20 15:45:08

>>2

To be honest I never was a chat/messenger user. I don't get what's the point of using Discord or other such resources.

But I'm kinda intrigued with the quote. If some hacker underground community is hanging out in an IRC channel, I'd like to join and check it out.

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Anonymous: 2023-04-20 19:23:44

then you might want to check out the irc servers on i2p.

i used AOL back in the day, it was great back then. after the main AOL platform kinda died i talked to friends on AIM and YMessenger. All that stuff got replaced by myspace, then FB replaced myspace now it looks like discord has semi-replaced FB in lots of ways.

it's a shame because matrix could have beaten discord if they had only dumped the open sores mentality and given us an official matrix app. instead the went the fragmented route like always leaving the end user with a plethora of half assed clients instead of one polished client. and the rest is history.

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Anonymous: 2023-04-20 19:38:45

>>4

>instead the went the fragmented route like always leaving the end user with a plethora of half assed clients instead of one polished client

Matrix is unbelievable crap even with Element. Thunderbird also added Matrix recently, but it's worse than half assed, it's like 5% assed and barely working.

I'm not sure Matrix would gain privacy-oriented userbase without all that opensource thing, tho.

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Anonymous: 2023-04-20 21:22:37

>>5

>I'm not sure Matrix would gain privacy-oriented userbase without all that opensource thing, tho.

I'm positive that it wouldn't have gained a privacy oriented userbase if it wasn't open source.
Any privacy oriented application must be open source, because how else could you be sure that it's being truthful?

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Anonymous: 2023-04-20 23:19:15

being open sores and being of the open sores mentality is too different things. if they had put in the effort and treated it like a product they not only would have made money they would have beaten discord.

but noooo. they just created the service then kicked back and said "well i guess we will dump the rest on the community" and the open sores community not being able to agree on literally anything, splintered development into a thousand different clients. all of which SUCK ASS.

that ladies and gentlemen is the open sores mentality at work.