Why does IRC still exist?
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Why does IRC exist in current year? I see that every general thread has its own IRC chatroom, but I don’t understand why. I even saw some retard asking if certain Di*cord channel (TeamSpeak for zoomers) has its own IRC chat.
1. While you can join many IRC chatrooms without registration, they are still not anonymous. Thus, IRC is inferior to imageboards in terms of careless shitposting.
2. IRC doesn’t support rich text, newlines, images and encryption. Thus, it is inferior to XMPP.
3. If you just joined a chatroom, you can’t see older messages. IRC encourages you to ask the same questions over and over again. Thus, IRC is inferior to phpBB forums in terms of discussing serious questions. (Or any other forums with archives.)
The only use for IRC today is… I don’t know. Book piracy? But we already have Libgen for that. So the only use for IRC today is temporary chatrooms for streaming services. I remember one pony streaming website having IRC channel for viewers to discuss the stream.
When will IRC die at last? Imageboards are so much better. -
you just outed yourself as the biggest newfag.
IRC is THE place for open source projects to coordinate and provide user support, besides mailing lists.
just look at this list:
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used to love playing those RPG bots on irc that were based on dragonballz or other shows
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The only problem with IRC is that it’s not anonymous. But everyone uses a VPN nowadays so ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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> problem with IRC
It is not anonymous (you WILL bear a nickname and you WILL hold responsibility for what you say).
No encryption
No newlines.
No text formatting.
No images, archives and other files.
You can’t see older messages that were posted before you joined.-
Are you a bot?
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Redpill me on this. Is everyone bots? Am I a bot without knowing?
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it might be him confusing the IPs with web scrappers or search engine spiders or whatever the gently caress they call them now.
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the guy is just an idiot. those users most likely run a web bouncer like thelounge that fetches everything. or a discord or matrix bridge of sorts.
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I am always laughing at people thinking everyone is a bot. Same in games like world of tanks. From all the 10k games I played, about 4k has me reported as a bot for sure. People don’t get that humans are different. If you did send me a link I would too click it instantly. Like, you send the link and less than 10 seconds I would click it.
Reactions like "nice try, shill" or something alike "why should I click such a link xD?" are completely normal to me.
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Why would a bot even click the link?
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>Why would a bot even click the link?
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Probably to get more context for a response.
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they wouldn’t. it’s more likely some app-specific "previewer" for every link posted than anything else.
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>It is not anonymous
It can be, and there are servers with no names.
>No encryption
You can use encryption, but it’s pointless in a public chat.
>No newlines.
Pointless.
>No text formatting.
Wrong.
>No images, archives and other files.
Gay and dumb, but clients exist that display images. Hosting a file somewhere is not an issue.
>You can’t see older messages that were posted before you joined.
Certain servers will replay messages that happened shortly before you came, but most don’t because it’s a shit feature.
If you want to see all of the messages, stay connected.-
> >No newlines.
> Pointless.
Said retard using newlines.-
just post more that one message, and voila, its on a new line
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> If you want to see all of the messages, stay connected.
Or just, I don’t know, don’t use IRC and use forum/imageboard instead.>They do it not because IRC is so superior, but because they don’t know other ways.
lmao wrongIRC is inferior to forums in terms of providing tech-support. IRC forces users to ask the same questions over and over again.
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And? If you want support information to be accessible, why would anyone use IRC?
That’s retarded. It’s like saying IRC is bad because if you want to use it to host a wiki on IRC but it sucks for wikis.-
> And? If you want support information to be accessible, why would anyone use IRC?
Because everyone else have used IRC for tech-support. So new developer comes and thinks: "Yeah, I want to answer same questions over and over again. Guess I’ll set up IRC chatroom like it’s gently caressing 1996".> Many channels
ALL forums have archives by default. These are also indexed by search engines.-
>ALL forums have archives by default.
Why would I want all of my messages archived forever, retard?
>These are also indexed by search engines.
Nope, I’m on many private forums. And many public forums have private subforums.-
> Why would I want all of my messages archived forever, retard?
So I could google my problem in 2021 and find your post from 2005, retard. Just imagine the world without archived messages.-
I’m not some mouth breathing moron asking other faggots for tech support on IRC. Most IRC users are tech literate and absolutely do not need to do anything like that.
Why are you so insistent on IRC being a medium specifically for tech support? You do realize people use it for casual conversation, right?
It is used for all kinds of discussion.-
Because it IS used for tech support in 2020 for some reason. While clearly forums are much better suited for that task.
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Discord is used by gay furry transexual child groomers, so that’s all it can ever be used for. You’re probably a furry pedophile, aren’t you? Why else would you use discord?
Who uses IRC for tech support anyway?
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I have never used Discord in my life. I just heard it is like TeamSpeak for zoomers (and pedophiles).
> Who uses IRC for tech support anyway?
Read this, retard:you just outed yourself as the biggest newfag.
IRC is THE place for open source projects to coordinate and provide user support, besides mailing lists.
just look at this list:
https://netsplit.de/channels/?net=freenode> IRC is THE place for open source projects to coordinate and provide user support, besides mailing lists.
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Yeah that’s freenode. Invitation still open btw.
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I don’t want to hold responsibility for what I say, not even for 5 seconds, you dumb negroid. Thus, I’ll never join IRC channel or even post on an imageboard with IDs (such as /poo/).
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ok retard
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post hardcore porn right now and see if you aren’t held responsible dumbass.
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Why would I want to post hardcore porn, retard melanoid? This is a thread about IRC and why IRC is obsolete.
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>why IRC is obsolete
IRC will be obsolete when a better solution comes around, so far there is none.
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The only patrician answer.
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Solution for what?
For book piracy? There’s Libgen for that.
For chatrooms? There’s XMPP for that. Why would you need a chatroom anyway, imageboards are much better.
For being a zoomer or a pedo? There’s Discord for that.
For shitposting? There are imageboards for that.
For providing tech support? There are forums for that. Any monkey can set up its own forum.
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>You can use something else therefor it’s bad.
Based retard. -
> You can use something better, therefore IRC is legacy shit.
Fixed that for you. -
>imageboards are much better
they very obviously aren’tstop baiting with this retarded bullshit, it’s embarrassing
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There are some books I could only find on #ebooks or #bookz
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Upload them to Libgen.
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>I have never used Discord in my life.
You’re not fooling anyone.
>IRC is THE place for open source projects to coordinate and provide user support
Read this, retard>Many channels for helping newbies have public logs and they are indexed by search engines/searchable.
Do you seriously think IRC is the only place that exists to get help for kde, linux, python, neovim or any of the other shit listed there?
It’s simply an alternative way to have discussion with the community and it’s mostly community members helping each-other.
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> The way you’re making it seem is the only possible way to get "tech support" is to use IRC.
Thankfully, no. There are many tech support forums, and all forums by default provide archives. So I can google my problem and find it was solved back in 2005.
What I am trying to say is that IRC is inferior to forums as tool for providing tech-support. Developerd set up their own IRC chatrooms because it’s a tradition nobody questions.Mods and janitors can you gently caressing absolute mong therefore imgboards are not anonymous
if you get a permaban all your posts are deleted so regular users can see the deleted posts are yours + it’s all archived on rbt, you have to go back
Yeah, and? "Anonymous" in "anonymous image board" means that you are anonymous "against" other visitors, not mods and jannies. You have no name and I have no name. You, without access to mod panel, can’t see my posts on other threads or boards. You can’t even highlight all my posts ITT because LULZ has no IDs.
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>Thankfully, no.
So it’s not a gently caressing issue.
>What I am trying to say is that IRC is inferior to forums as tool for providing
It literally has nothing to do with IRC. If people want to use it for help with things, there is nothing wrong with that.
Saying the protocol is bad because people use it for something you don’t like is retarded.
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> What if people want their retarded questions forgotten forever?
In a perfect world, where IRC isn’t used in 2020, thede people would:
A. Go to an anonymous imageboard and post their retarded questions in /fglt/.
B. Create new account on Stackoverflow and post their retarded question there.
C. Not ask retarded questions at all. Maybe they would use google to find the answers.
But sadly, IRC is still used in 2020. -
IRC is used anyway. Suck, loser.
Nobody’s forcing you to use it.> You can use something better, therefore IRC is legacy shit.
Fixed that for you.>new = better
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> IRC is used anyway.
Because monkey developers don’t think. They just see that their fellow monkeys use IRC and decide to set up their own channels. If they would think for just five minutes, they would come to conlusion that IRC is legacy garbage and that forums/boards are much better.
> new = better
> more suited for the task = better
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Forums aren’t good for instant messaging so they shouldn’t ever be used.
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There is XMPP for instant messaging.
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Outdated, legacy shitware.
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> Outdated
IRC is outdated. XMPP is the future. XMPP will replace instant messaging and emails. XMPP has OMEMO and OTR encryption.
> Why are you recommending forums when they aren’t good for instant messaging?
See this post, you low-IQ melanoid. Forums are better for providing tech-support.
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>XMPP is the future.
It was invented in 1999. It’s ancient shitware.
You’re retarded.
>Forums are better for providing tech-support.
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> And they aren’t good for instant messaging. Why are you recommending them?
XMPP is bad for tech support. You should use a forum instead.
> XMPP is bad for tech support. You should use a forum instead.
Are you being a retarded melanoid on purpose? -
XMPP is bad for tech support. You should use a forum instead.
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you live in the land of fantasy and pure retardation. consider suicide, thanks.
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and white supremacists drink milk
your point?
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>Because everyone else have used IRC for tech-support. So new developer comes and thinks: "Yeah, I want to answer same questions over and over again. Guess I’ll set up IRC chatroom like it’s gently caressing 1996".
IRC has the great advantage of automatically filtering out underage and general retards. Not that it’s hard to use, just enought to get rid of the retards i have to spoonfeed on discord all day.-
Why do you use Discord in the first place? I had never used it, not a single time in 24 years I live.
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>I had never used it, not a single time in 24 years I live.
nice
>Why do you use Discord in the first place?
Collaborating on something with people that refuse to abandon it. As well as marketing to the people that would never go on IRC/Matrix.Also discord isn’t a teamspeak alternative, even though it was advertised that way. Discord is 95% a text chat application. Maybe 5% of people use it for voice at one time, at most.
But it does have some redeeming factors despite being botnet, the screenshare works pretty well for example.
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>IRC forces users to ask the same questions over and over again
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>IRC forces users to ask the same questions over and over again.
No, it doesn’t. Many channels for helping newbies have public logs and they are indexed by search engines/searchable.-
this. same thing for mailing lists
OP is clearly a zoomer who hasn’t even used these things.
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What makes a person retarded is not being wrong but insisting on holding a position despite a mountain of evidence. So you’re retarded.
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you can just tell you’ve been banned from every IRC server in existence
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probably that, lul
OP is a retard, this thread is retarded, IRC will remain the #1 non-botnet communication platform
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>IRC will remain the #1 non-botnet communication platform
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>IRC will remain the #1 non-botnet communication platform
100% facts.Matrix will (and should) probably replace IRC. It’s bridges are highly inter-operable (Matrix media servers acting as file-hosting for IRC friends for example).
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I don’t think IRC will be replaced, i could see it linked to it somehow. I was reading about the UK ministry of defence testing out xmpp over high frequency radio networks. very interesting stuff. no internet required but it can be linked to it.
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Does that mean that IRC works over radio waves signals?
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probably could if someone made a radio based server for it. it’d be absolutely slow as gently caress but it’d work.
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this, plus it isn’t some XML bullshit like XMPP.
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>Does that mean that IRC works over radio waves signals?
Do you know what WiFi is?
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I think more likely is that they do everything on an iPhone/iPad and don’t have a laptop since those are effectively incapable of IRC.
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>Not knowing what happened before you joined the server is a shit feature
based retard
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>It is not anonymous (you WILL bear a nickname and you WILL hold responsibility for what you say).
there are anonymous servers[…]
i still use it for xdcc and talking with anons
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> and talking with anons
Are they truly anonymous? Or do they bear nicknames?-
both, the /a/nons on rizon who have a registred nick, and then there are the anonymous servers, where you can only see 2 users, that is you and another is for the online people, you cant see ip or anything, fully anonymous.
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> there are the anonymous servers, where you can only see 2 users, that is you and another is for the online people, you cant see ip or anything, fully anonymous.
So, like imageboards but without threads, images, webms, newlines, rich text formatting and reply trees.-
not exactly, there are alt-chans, who also have anonymous irc as a fallback incase site is down, they also have xdcc bots for animu mango,
> but without threads, images, webms, newlines, rich text formatting and reply trees.
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>reply trees
those are a garbage anti-feature
gently caress reddit or LULZ-x users that rearange comments in any way other than chronological-
Being able to see this "Replies:" line is cool tho. Can’t have it in a chatroom.
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Richtext a shit.
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i use xdcc and it’s based. OP is a retarded melanoid.
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XDCC is the only reason why I keep using it
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this thread is a prime example of why OPs idea is retarded
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hopefully, it dies soon
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i’ll be on irc until im 110
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IRC is a mess. There are no good clients for it, there are a million different nets, most of which won’t even connect, and there’s nobody on it anyway.
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>and there’s nobody on it anyway.
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most people in this idiot thread have obviously never used IRC before, sad.
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* Current local users: 11267 Max: 15564
* Current global users: 11267 Max: 15564
sure is nobody>join 3000 user chatroom
>no one says anything the entire day
Woah. Any other epic userbase statistic you can use? FOSS/Linux seem to be the only topics you can actually talk to people about. People are coming back to IRC out of nostalgia, because it was good 20 years ago and find nothing but dead chatrooms full of always-on accounts that haven’t spoken in years.-
maybe people see you join, know very well that you’re a useless cunt and don’t talk until you leave?
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This is the problem with non-anonymous chatrooms.
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looks like the system works well.
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>muh secret club that recognizes me by my nickname
If you crave attention so much then join facebook and have a nice day melanoid-
> be you
> a failure
> get rejected by irc communities
> i’ll try discord and create my own gay community under a new name that nobody will know!
it’s usually how it works with faggots like yourself. give it time. people on discord will also catch on to how you’re just a schizo and boot you from that as well.irc still awesome in 2021
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When the gently caressing feds come for us IRC will be the only refuge.
A lot of imageboards that were attacked or even destroyed relied on IRC to communicate until they recovered.
Shit like Discord is a honeypot and you’re constantly being monitored. At least with IRC the admins and you can see whose there.-
IRC doesn’t provide encryption. XMPP, on the other hand, provides OTR and OMEMO. You can also use XMPP over Tor or I2P. So, XMPP >>>>>> IRC.
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> the retarded pedophile thinks IRC is a "platform"
> will an internet protocol die
LMAO. gently caress off and die, you retarded moron. IRC will live for eternity. -
Just use a bouncer if you want to see offline messages.
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bouncers are too difficult to set up for most of these low iq baboons in this thread.
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Or maybe I can just use forums to see posts from 2005.
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OP is probably one of these rejected
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Modern IRC clients are a lot more robust than you’d think. Many of them do have embedded images/video, code blocks, and more.
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Thank you for high-quality post in this thread full of dumb diverse folk like these
XMPP is bad for tech support. You should use a forum instead.
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Sadly, even with all those features IRC still loses to XMPP as a tool for instant messaging and to forums as a tool for providing tech support.-
XMPP is bad for tech support so, nobody should use XMPP.
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This isn’t even funny.
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So why did you make the same argument against IRC?
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I didn’t make the same argument for IRC.
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Right, I forgot the previous posts in this thread now conveniently never existed.
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You retarded melanoid. I will repeat my points for the last time.
> IRC is inferior to forums for providing tech-support => people should use forums for tech-support.
> IRC is inferior to XMPP for instant messaging => people should use XMPP for instant messaging.
> IRC is inferior to Libgen for book piracy => people should use Libgen for book piracy.
> IRC is inferior to Discord for being a pedo => people should use Discord if they want to be pedoes.
> IRC is inferior to imageboards for shitposting => people should use imageboards for shitposting.
Don’t try to twist that, you low-IQ negroid.-
Nope, you spent this entire time arguing that IRC was bad because it’s bad for tech support.
You’re the one twisting it because you made a retarded argument.
If you shouldn’t use IRC because it’s bad for tech support, you shouldn’t use XMPP.
You’re so ultra-focused on tech support retardation that your argument is basically if X doesn’t support Y use-case, you shouldn’t use it. Which is why according to you nobody should use forums either.
Forums aren’t good for livestreaming therefor they shouldn’t be used. Outdated shit tech.
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You ARE truly a dumb 70 IQ melanoid. But your retarded shitposts only prove my point (one of my points):
> IRC is inferior to imageboards for shitposting
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You’ve not addressed my post. You have no argument against it.
You are making up retarded use-cases and saying they’re retarded like it’s some kind of legitimate argument.
People want to use text chat and they do, end of story.
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> retarded use-cases
People use IRC for everything in thislist. And that is sad, because in 2020 there are better solutions for all of the use-cases I mentioned.
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It’s Internet Relay Chat you gently caressing ape.
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There’s no point in XMPP any more since Matrix does everything except server resource usage better.
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Matrix at least has the useful shit baked into the core spec and the largest server supports federation.
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It also has a few core concepts better designed than XMPP to begin with, such as distributed rooms. Active development also means that it’ll catch up to (and surpass) XMPP in the remaining areas sooner or later. It just seems like the superior choice to me.
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ITT: OP got kicked from some IRC channel
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any good windows clients that arent shit have auto-link thumbnailer?
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>IRC in 2021
even Twitch uses IRC for their chat software.-
That’s the only use for IRC in 2020. For anything else there are better solutions. See
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been on quakenet for over a decade now and I will only move on if quakenet decides to die which is probably never
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how the gently caress can you find a good irc channel that wont ban you for saying melanoid or just being a general LULZ user? Most of them time you have to deal with mods/admins with huge egos.
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Most people here only talk like that on LULZ. You’d have to be pretty gently caressed up to act like that anywhere else and the op/admin that banned you was doing the right thing.
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now you are just baiting gently caressing melanoid. thanks for proving my point though. oh no i made ops angry for saying melanoid or go aginst there gnomish bullshit. have some underage faggot ban you haha shits retarded as hell
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no one wants to talk to children, you are a child so you are banned.
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hahahah and this is why irc is dog shit so is every other chat. Just imagine using discord as an adult male getting banned by some 15yr old retard.
If you piss of the mods here you get banned too (in fact they’ll ban by subjects.)
I’ve never been banned from LULZ or any board for just talking to someone.
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If you piss of the mods here you get banned too (in fact they’ll ban by subjects.)
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i miss being 14
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by joining LULZ related irc channels (not the gay one)
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which? i might join some havent used irc in forever.
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you both confuse what I am saying here and its extremely typical of gently caressing moron op faggots that cannot take a gently caressing joke or rather are unwilling to have someone stand up against whatever there opinion is. At least on LULZ you can argue with people over shit without fear of some retard getting ass hurt. Yeah, i’m not talking about obnoxious shit either you gently caressing brainlet faggots. Of course there are going to be rules just like on LULZ. Please both of you need to have a nice day.
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why u so frustrated
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frustrated? Just annoyed. As i’ve gotten older I no longer like the idea of being banned for just some random comment I made cause some OP tranny got mad. Discord is even worse.
Oh and don’t get me wrong if there is a channel strictly for helping people fix issues say gentoo channel then its fine. Its just when you are for casual discussion does it become a problem.
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>I’m mad because I have to follow rules!
Grow up. Nobody wants an obnoxious ass in their circle.-
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>>I’m mad because I have to follow rules!
>Grow up. Nobody wants an obnoxious ass in their circle.
Said the obnoxious ass.
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>19:36 ━━▶ Joins: Anon929 ([email protected])
>19:36 <Anon929> hi
>19:36 <Anon929> jioy0
>19:37 <Anon929> wnat to see sex…
>19:37 <Anon929> ok no
>19:37 ◀━━ Quits: Anon929 ([email protected]) ()IRC filters most retards out by being less appealing than discord.
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irc is garbage
you can’t even join most channels without first creating an account..
and to even create an account, you must use some valid email, not a throwaway like cockli.. and even if you manage to do that, you can’t use some sort of vpn or it won’t let access the server
so you have to use your real IP, and not only that, expose it to the entire server since irc doesn’t mask your IP.
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cock.li isn’t a throwaway you retard, bouncers are common which is pretty much a vpn, and some even allow Tor access
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you shouldn’t haver to create any sort of account you double melanoid
discord respects my privacy more since I can just join any channel with a single click without having to go through some shitty authentication
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>discord respects my privacy
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>discord respects my privacy more
hahhahahah nice one
>tries to join a server without an account
>can’t post for some shitty reason
>create account with VPN
>account locked in 10 seconds
>have to send phone number to confirm im not a bot
>don’t have onegtfo with your proprietary shit
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you shouldn’t haver to create any sort of account you double melanoid
discord respects my privacy more since I can just join any channel with a single click without having to go through some shitty authentication
>discord respects my privacy more
Retarded as gently caress!
Opinion discarded !Story of how discord works
IRC protocol with different REAL servers
Discord shitty 1 centralized server with rooms that have the name ”’server””
IRC lets you post immediately and without problems if not go to a different server.
Discord requires authentication will bait adn then demand you make a account.Make account on Discord account locked within seconds if you use TOR or VPN.
>To unlock give us your phone number !
What cancer !Also Discord data mines every click you do.
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>t. poster who made first quote
melanoid you didn’t read my post
I hate discord because its proprietary
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>expose it to the entire server since irc doesn’t mask your IP.
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>you can’t even join most channels without first creating an account..
blame freenode, not an entire protocol
>and to even create an account, you must use some valid email, not a throwaway like cockli.. and even if you manage to do that, you can’t use some sort of vpn or it won’t let access the server
using a cock.li email worked for me
you can use tor but you have to generate identity keys to ensure you’re not some faggot spammer
>so you have to use your real IP, and not only that, expose it to the entire server since irc doesn’t mask your IP.
servers have IP masks that can set your hostname to some fake bullshithave a nice day discord tranny
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>IRC doesn’t support rich text, newlines, images and encryption.
people like you are the reason email gently caressing sucks in 2020… "i need to send a file, but i’m unwilling to use the appropriate protocols/methods to do that so here’s this 500mb email attachment that is guaranteed to be slow and unwieldy". but let’s address this now:>IRC doesn’t support rich text
doesn’t need to. use your cellphone to send emoticons you queer.>newlines
what?>images
send a gently caressing link to an image on a file host.>encryption
works fine with PGP.>they are still not anonymous
there are anonymous servers, but if you can’t figure out how to use a VPN you probably shouldn’t have made this post.>you can’t see older messages
run an eggdrop bot if the ephemeral nature of you not being there for part of a conversation is causing you to have an existential crises>IRC encourages you to ask the same questions over and over again
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> >newlines
> what?
You know, pressing Enter to create a new line, so your post would have multiple lines.
> send a gently caressing link to an image on a file host.
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> there are anonymous servers, but if you can’t figure out how to use a VPN you probably shouldn’t have made this post.
"Anonymous" doesn’t mean that your IP is hidden. It means that you can’t highlight all my posts ITT. I have no name and you have no name.
Most IRC chatrooms force you to wear nicknames. Thus, it is not anonymous.-
> posts
> he thinks IRC is like a forum
> thusIRC is just shit with its only saving grace is its dead ass simplicity.
embarrassing. you’d be banned from IRC by now if you joined a channel and started writing such epic cope posts. IRC is the ultimate shit filter that keeps out schizos like you, zoomers and mr. policeman. cope harder, tyrone.
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and yet I’m on IRC right now in one of the only decent topchan in chanstat for Rizon.
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you can always /part if you dont like it faggot kek
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I don’t think that IRC is like forum, you retarded 70 IQ negroid.
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>you must be one of those schizos I was talking about.
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> just generate a random string then.
For what? People will still be able to see which messages are mine.-
did you not read the rest of my post or something?
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I want full anonymity like on LULZ or any other board without IDs.
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well you’re SoL and probably a massive faggot shitposter and I wish they would enable IDs sitewide so I could more easily block blatantly shitty posts.
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> run an eggdrop bot if the ephemeral nature of you not being there for part of a conversation is causing you to have an existential crises
Or I can just use forums where every post is archived.
> run a wiki or simple FAQ page for your stupid #channel if this is even a real issue
Or I can just use forums where every post is archived and my question was answered back in 2005.-
And then the forum disappears and everything is gone
Literally happened to the one I posted a home brew game in I wrote when I was 15. The admin was one of the tool chain devs so it’s not like it was an obscure place either.-
Forum may or may not disappear.
Your messages in IRC chatroom WILL disappear. Unless there is public chatlog available. But then again, why bother with setting up chat-loggers, when you can just use forums where everything is archived by default?-
I have my logs publicly hosted with autoindex for anyone who can find it. irc is definitely more logged than anything else.
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IRC/XMPP/Matrix filters out zoomers and retards
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>gtard: i no understand pointer, halp
>pragma: !c11std pointer
>gtard: tyvm candide-
Talking about pointers as if they’re some kind of advanced concept is a litmus test for being a delusional, beginner-tier retard.
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first time visiting LULZ, i see
enjoy your stay
useful filters:
>tripcode
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>name
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I just browse every so often. I can’t imagine why anyone would want to come to this board daily.
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>why anyone would want to come to this board daily
december is aoc
otherwise avoid this place, especially around gaymer events like ces, it’s 99% consoomer wars (compared to 80% usually)
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IRC is very good for learning programming and leenox.
You get into your language chat, you start programming, as soon as you hit a roadblock you can immediately ask shit in the channel and get a response. Forums/githubs etc is slow as shit and you need to build a good documented case to get an answer if any. On IRC you just fire a dumb question and you will find a couple of helpful dudes chiming in. You keep that chat open all the day, casually browse what people are discussing and you will absorb tons of knowledge that slowly builds up
Easiest way to learn programming ever. You don’t need some dumb sicp book.
If you want to use IRC to chat with total randoms about literally nothing of value you are doing it wrong and it’s as shit as facebook-
>leenox
It’s actually called GNU/leenox.
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Comfy as gently caress because zoomers have moved on to discord, XDCC and warez.
Oh and in the company we have IRC as a backup for when Teams is pooping the bed and we have an emergency to address. Clients for really any device including GUI less. Stupidly simple to connect to. Plus, the internal IRC works without the Internet so we can still communicate if the Internet connectivity went down.
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> Plus, the internal IRC works without the Internet
So does the XMPP.-
>shilling XML
have a nice day
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cuz not everyone is a retard like you to use discord
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because "irc" is not a product, it’s a protocol. it’ll continue to exist because the work to implement it was already done 30 years ago and it doesn’t need any difficult support to keep it running. new things will capture greater market share than IRC, but killing off IRC is impossible.
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most of the channels on Rizon that are in the top 10 on ChanStat are basically just /poo/-addled schizo faggots; bunch of super boomer gently caressers too. Never been on any other network other than Freenode which is mostly just support channels with perpetual pajeet tier questions, MUH YOUNICKS and MUH CHRISTIAN CHANNEL; only worth going on Freenode to directly ask devs about shit before making an issue on their issue tracker.
IRC is just shit with its only saving grace is its dead ass simplicity.
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>IRC is bad because some schizos I don’t like use it
OK schizo.
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If anything all those new electron-based chat programs is the biggest reason to stick to IRC.
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Chads use Matrix.
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it’s the best place to ask technical questions. you get pretty close to immediate replies, and they’re almost always useful. stackoverflow, reddit, LULZ all have their weaknesses. when i need the answer to a tough tech problem, irc is *the* place to go to.
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cos its resilient
have you seen the state of twitter/facebook
they are ‘slow, crap aols’
the platforms are deteriorated. initially, they were marginal. facebook (junk stock, imo), wasa passable BBS.
twitter is a joke, the platform is a waste of time, it was passable, useable, years ago — not now.
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last time I was in freenode #ubuntu (#1 ubuntu support channel), i saw > 1700 users
1 chat channel, 1700 users. its managed.
and it works, ppl ask questions, they get responses
because there are so many people there, helping-
all the bitcoin ppl r on irc
ppl who know things, inside knowledge
when the big ramp ups will occur (etc)
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because reddit/facebook
for ‘proles’
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IRC ain’t goin anywhere. all the so y lent alternatives can’t even come close in ease of use. no one gives a shit about s.o.y features like voice chat and images. s.oys want to turn everything into a gently caressing phone app.
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>you guys wanna mumble?
is a pretty frequent thing in many channels.
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>it’s free
>it’s lightweight
>people are familiar with it
>it just werxThat’s why. Why would a hobbyist/open source project use Teams or Discord or some other bloated crap? IRC does the job.
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post nuclear conflict two things would still exist
cockroaches/irc.
probably running on a SW packet backbone
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What’s that client?
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I have completely forgotten how to use this
I move away from the city, had no internet for a year and forgot everything
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just use GNU Jami
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I use mIRC in 2020 and will use it in 2021 from the sealab. Ask me anything.
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My username got me banned, pretty sure the little shit tried to dox me too. People like that need to be excised from the internet, I have had my irc handle longer than that soi-cuck has been alive.
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i remember reading Amazon uses irc somehow internally. i mean standard unixy services are a swiss army knife that will never go away and will never hurt to know.
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IRC is based. Go back to kik you pedo
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should i try weechat? how does it compare to irssi? have been using irssi for ~15 years and always liked it but seems like some of you guys use weechat.
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irssi > weechat.
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Not until they implement display filters.
Filtering on arrival rather than on display is dumb. Being able to turn on/off filters like parts/joins and see it affect the history isn’t just clever, but expected functionality.
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The entire idea of IRC channels is that it’s somewhat of a pain in the ass to join. That minute inconvenience is enough to keep out shitters out of your channels.
Also, pretty sure there is SSL for IRC?
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>2. IRC doesn’t support rich text, newlines, images and encryption.
That’s actually a feature.
>3. If you just joined a chatroom, you can’t see older messages.
That’s also a feature.
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I use IRC for piracy (no, not everything is on libgen) and the only things I really feel it’s lacking is chat history and real anonymity.
Discord is a piece of shit but I can actually join a channel on some niche subject like hacking efforts on specific old computers and find detailed discussions on file structures and what not without licking namefag ass or being a perpetual idler (no, 9/10ths of the "users" on irc are not active). -
ah yes, IRC, or also know as "how to broadcast my public IP to hackers, script kiddies and kiwifags".
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I’ve been using IRC since the mid 90s and never had a problem with any of that. Stop hanging around with gently caresswits. And if you can’t help yourself, use a bouncer.
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what shitty networks still lack host cloaking?
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most of them?
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horrifying. take the Rizon pill
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>ask you to register
>ask you for mail to registerno way fag
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IRC has ONE fantastic benefit in 2021:
Technical barrier to entry.Any moron can create a discord, participate in a forum, join a chatroom, etc.
You have to have some basic technical savvy to participate
in IRC– it filters out the technically illiterate.-
ever heard of webchat anon? you literally just enter name and channel and you’re in, it’s easier than discords or forums because those require you to login with email while irc does not
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>Technical barrier to entry.
are you gently caressing stupid? download an IRC client and click the server and you’re ready to go
I was using IRC when I was 10 years old-
You overestimate zoomers. See:
>download an IRC client
What, you mean I can’t just chat from the webbrowser?
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been using IRC since 3 years. It’s not that hard to use.
t. zoomer with technical and RTFM skills
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don’t underestimate the lack of technical skills of the average person
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If you hate irc, don’t use it, you thick brainned faggot. Clearly more normal people use irc than retarded discord shit. Go back to discord you retarded fag
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Because discord is full of tranny, pedos, furries, and communists.
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People who are defending web chat and discord shit, peobably are still leeching onto their parents, or have no social values whatsoever. Only real people use irc. Facts
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Is there even a secure chat program that offers a zoomer friendly experience/UI? I hate discord to no end but it’s all my friends use, and what’s the point on using a chat program if there is no one to talk to.
Given I can convince them to move, is there even a valid alternative? How is Riot/Element?-
Element UI is really close to Discord in most aspects and even has most of the features (@mentions, media sharing, emoji reactions, bots, etc.). Perhaps wait a month or 3 for Spaces (roughly equivalent to Discord guilds/groups) are finished, then it’s a complete replacement and even better in many ways, excluding inferior voice chat.
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Thanks for the reply anon, will look more into both.
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Sorry, if I wasn’t clear enough, I meant to say that "spaces" are an upcoming Element feature. I’ve heard people complain that current alternative to Discord guilds (Element "communities") are too limited and barebones, so that should bring it closer.
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Ah that explains it, sorry for getting it wrong. Searching Spaces gave me a telegram alternative and a discontinued Google product. Thanks for making it clearer, downloading it right now to check features and whatnot. End to End encryption is really attractive.
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Element is definitely a good idea, as matrix is open and federated, and element does e2e.
They have real servers, and a concept similar to servers in discord. I believe called "communities".
The "communities" experience isn’t quite ready yet, but is due in the first weeks of 2021. There’s UI for it visible in element already, which is a little silly.
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Discord is all about trannies and gayness. IRC is all about downloading. IRC has gotten even better in 2020/21 because all the fags that would usually shit up channels with gay talk and games say JoIn oUR DiScORRd and the channels are just full of packlists and announces. Like the old prechannel days, but every channel is like that now. Beautiful, brilliant.
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Reminder, to be a jannie here you are literally forced to use discord while the mods live it up on IRC.
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Of course there is formatting you idiot trucking zoomers. IRC is and always will be THE way to communicate on the I ternet. Servers support SSL vhost and VPN so anonymity has been dealt with decades ago.
IRC has had utf-8 support for years…
T. Paste an emoticon into IRC chat
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Anonymity isn’t about hiding yoir IP address, you dumb retard. It is about having no name. On LULZ you have no name and so you are anonymous.
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>on LULZ you have no name and so you are anonymous
Superficially you dumb melanoid-
Can you highlight all my posts ITT, dumb melanoid? No, you can’t. Because I have no name and so I am anonymous.
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Alas, superficially
You are not anonymous to your ISP, the government, or the LULZ servers
If other autists are your problem, then your threat model is shit-
"Anonymous" in "anonymous imageboard" doesn’t mean hiding from government, glowdiverse folk, ISPs or mods. It is about having no name, so others posters can’t see which posts are mine. It is about having no responsibility for quality of my posts. It is about careless shitposting. I thought this was obvious. So sad that I have to explain shit like this.
(Or course, AIBs that exist in darknet allow you to hide from glowies, ISPs, governments etc.)
Most IRC chatrooms force you to wear a nickname, and so you are not anonymous. You have to take responsibility for what you say.-
>Most IRC chatrooms force you to wear a nickname, and so you are not anonymous.
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AIBs force anonymity by design. I’ll stick to AIBs – preferably in darknet.
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>turns ids on sitewide
heh, nothin’ personnel, schizo.
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Wake me up when mathematicianmoot turns IDs on sitewide. Then we’ll talk. But not on this board, since I don’t want to take responsibility for what I say.
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IRC is awesome 😉
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IRC is based, it keeps out normiefags who can’t into software that takes a little intelligence to use
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IRC is the ultimate hipster circlejerk zone
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Anons tell me of the glory that is IRC.
t. scum who only used forums, chans and IRC minimally to get pirated books.Where and to what do I use IRC ?
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Don’t use IRC. The less demand for IRC there is, the less supply of IRC there will be. IRC must die so XMPP could thrive.
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best part about irc is the tight knit community so unless you’ve been part of one for years it’s not the same and I bet it’s very hard to fit in these days
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What community do I join?
I literally only know places where I talk to bots to get books.-
I have no idea anon I’ve been on the same channel for 12 years and I don’t see myself moving on it’s kind of like LULZ in a way, you are there forever
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>I’ve been on the same channel for 12 years
Server and channel name plz.-
sorry but no can do anon, the channel is pretty much private at this point
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>the channel is pretty much private at this point
Reee do you really think it will be flooded?
Write it in a picture so no bot scrapes it from LULZ.Or can IRC do private shit? How? When I opened IRC I can join all the servers no problem.
However I’m a IRC noob.
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it’s private in a way that you can’t find that channel name anywhere on the internet anymore and you can only join if I give you the channel name, it used to be a discussion hub for a certain mod but now it’s just friends hanging around
as best your intentions maybe I really have doubts about letting it be known on LULZ and potentially destroying my home channel-
Hmmm.
How about this I post a temp email and you send me it to this temp e-mail.This way only I know this.
I promise I’m nice and not a raging shit poster.
I also will not give away it to others.
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Inertia combined with sekret club/hipster mentality given how niche it is now. It’s archaic yes but that’s more a feature than a drawback now.
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