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Except for the complete lack of security and blind trust of server operators? It's downright dangerous to use it,but then again people still use email.
by badrabbit 8y ago
Except for the complete lack of security and blind trust of server operators?
It's downright dangerous to use it,but then again people still use email.
- paulie_a 8y agoThe same can be said for slack too. Irc is far superior.
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- badrabbit 8y agoYou like irc. Does not mean it's superior. It's unsafe and lacks too many features natively. It wasn't even great in the early 90s. It was popular and I liked the experience but the protocol is even more broken than email. I am a fan of simplicity,but it needs to be safe to use and friendly to users.
- beefhash 8y agoYour argument can be made about more or less any popular chat platform to have ever existed. At least you can set up your own IRCd, so you and your friends don't have to trust nobodies on the Internet.
- taeric 8y agoTo be fair, you do have to ultimately trust everyone communicating with you. Trust is pernicious in that way. That is to say, there is nothing guaranteeing that the communication delivered to your server is what was sent by your clients in a completely "open" system. There are ways to fix this, I think. And I make no claims that common chat systems have fixed this. Just pointing out that having your own IRCd server is not at all solving it.
- badrabbit 8y agoIt's not safe. Period.