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I can confidently state that the public onion IRCs are not what you want. The people looking for quality chats have been driven away by the crazies.
by ryanlol 7y ago
I can confidently state that the public onion IRCs are not what you want. The people looking for quality chats have been driven away by the crazies.
- jandrese 7y agoI was about to say that onion only IRC channels aren't for high quality discussion. They're for discussion by people who are paranoid for one reason or another. People selling drugs/credit card numbers/weapons. People with extreme political ideology who are talking about violent revolution. People who mentally unstable with paranoia. A better site for someone wanting high level discussion on a narrowly focused topic is Reddit, although you will have to choose your subreddits carefully. It can be a difficult needle to thread, but there are quite a large number of quality subreddits once you know how to search.
- focus2020 7y agoI don't have any of those intentions but I have to think twice before posting and make sure it's politically correct. I assume this other people might feel the same.
- AshwinDurairaj 7y agoCan you provide any examples of high quality subreddits?
- jandrese 7y agoIt depends on your interests, but for HN readers /r/networking is a pretty good place for enterprise networking discussion. /r/rust has some helpful people in it if you're working with the Rust programming language. /r/science has extremely strict moderation that makes it a good read-only subreddit unless you are an actual scientist who can back up their post. Generally you want a subreddit with a small but active userbase. Not too small or it tends to die off, but also not too big or the S/N ratio drops off.
- ryanlol 7y ago>People selling drugs/credit card numbers/weapons I don’t think this really happens on Tor IRCs, at least not at any significant scale. >People who mentally unstable with paranoia. It’s mostly this, and pedophiles