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I miss IRC deeply. We had an internet with an amazing, people-run, free, chat network. And we replaced it with corporate things like facebook messenger/discord

by sidek 7y ago

I miss IRC deeply. We had an internet with an amazing, people-run, free, chat network. And we replaced it with corporate things like facebook messenger/discord where you're the product.

qplex 7y ago
I find the modern (free) alternatives are more reliable. No more netsplits. I can't remember the last time I couldn't send a message because of a technical reason. But I do miss the culture of the old net and IRC. These days only small islands of it remain.
Seirdy 7y ago
If you're looking for rooms with high activity, I put together a list of the top 30 busiest IRC channels I'm in by sorting my logs by size (descending) [0]. The command that generated the list: grep -v -c '(\-\->.*has joined|<--.*has left).*#' $WEECHAT_HOME/logs/irc.*.[#]*.weechatlog \ | tr ':' ' ' \ | sort -n -k 2 -r \ | sed -e 's#.*irc\.##' -e 's#\.weechatlog##' \ | grep -v "#channel-i'd-rather-not-show" \ | sed 30q \ | curl -F 'clbin=<-' https://clbin.com [0]: https://clbin.com/9fcdI https://clbin.com/9fcdI Archived paste: https://archive.li/4OMf3 https://archive.li/4OMf3 and https://web.archive.org/web/20200215033709/https://clbin.com/9fcdI https://web.archive.org/web/20200215033709/https://clbin.com...
- Seirdy 7y ago
  Addendum: kichimi on rizon.\#rice has just reached out in response to this comment: 2020-02-15 06:55:32 kichimi that post 2020-02-15 06:55:35 kichimi was made by you 2020-02-15 06:55:40 kichimi and i wanted to say hi 2020-02-15 06:55:45 Seirdy hai 2020-02-15 06:55:51 kichimi because i love seeing rizon repped 2020-02-15 06:56:00 kichimi but you didnt put a disclaimer in your post saying rizon was the most toxic network on the internet
  - TheReverend403 7y ago
    > but you didnt put a disclaimer in your post saying rizon was the most toxic network on the internet We're not all assholes. Just most of us.

by sidek 7y ago

I miss IRC deeply. We had an internet with an amazing, people-run, free, chat network. And we replaced it with corporate things like facebook messenger/discord where you're the product.

qplex 7y ago

I find the modern (free) alternatives are more reliable. No more netsplits. I can't remember the last time I couldn't send a message because of a technical reason. But I do miss the culture of the old net and IRC. These days only small islands of it remain.

Seirdy 7y ago

If you're looking for rooms with high activity, I put together a list of the top 30 busiest IRC channels I'm in by sorting my logs by size (descending) [0]. The command that generated the list: grep -v -c '(\-\->.*has joined|<--.*has left).*#' $WEECHAT_HOME/logs/irc.*.[#]*.weechatlog \ | tr ':' ' ' \ | sort -n -k 2 -r \ | sed -e 's#.*irc\.##' -e 's#\.weechatlog##' \ | grep -v "#channel-i'd-rather-not-show" \ | sed 30q \ | curl -F 'clbin=<-' https://clbin.com [0]: https://clbin.com/9fcdI https://clbin.com/9fcdI Archived paste: https://archive.li/4OMf3 https://archive.li/4OMf3 and https://web.archive.org/web/20200215033709/https://clbin.com/9fcdI https://web.archive.org/web/20200215033709/https://clbin.com...

Seirdy 7y ago
Addendum: kichimi on rizon.\#rice has just reached out in response to this comment: 2020-02-15 06:55:32 kichimi that post 2020-02-15 06:55:35 kichimi was made by you 2020-02-15 06:55:40 kichimi and i wanted to say hi 2020-02-15 06:55:45 Seirdy hai 2020-02-15 06:55:51 kichimi because i love seeing rizon repped 2020-02-15 06:56:00 kichimi but you didnt put a disclaimer in your post saying rizon was the most toxic network on the internet
- TheReverend403 7y ago
  > but you didnt put a disclaimer in your post saying rizon was the most toxic network on the internet We're not all assholes. Just most of us.