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This is a serious question, because it's the situation I'm in: Why would somebody who is techy enough to use a decentralized social network, not just use IRC?
by Swizec 11y ago
This is a serious question, because it's the situation I'm in: Why would somebody who is techy enough to use a decentralized social network, not just use IRC?
I have a group of techie friends. We started a "private" IRC channel in 2010-ish and so far have been unable to find something better. Modern clients embed images, embed video links, and so on. We have bots that handle upvotes and offline messaging and a few other things. We even have a thingy that shows history (and most modern clients do that anyway)
None of us would be willing to self-host anything. Too much effort.
Am I misunderstanding how decentralization works for Charme? Is it more like hosting my own website, or more like using git?
I like the idea. I worry about moving my existing social capital.
- grandcat 11y agoIn my opinion, IRC does not have the features that Charme can offer right now (not looking at the security perspective right now): It allows smart ways to filter your friend's messages. For example, you could filter for people driving from point A to point B. Considering some hundred friends within one group (like in FB), you could handle the massive amount of messages manually any more. So, these context things in Charme look very promising. For hosting I agree that it might be a problem. But normally, you always know one of these techy guys :) However, I completely agree with the last part: moving a user base is very tough or even impossible.
- Quiark 11y agoHow do you run the bots if you don't self-host them?