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I expected to see IRC communities as well. Is there a collection of communities that aren't hosted by corporations?

by shae 6y ago

eeZah7Ux 6y ago
There's plenty of interesting places on IRC, mailing list, XMPP, Mastodon. Downvote me to hell, but best communities I hang out in are far from shiny/hip/popular, and this is why they are good.
- JohnCurran 6y ago
  Are there any in particular that you recommend?
  - eeZah7Ux 6y ago
    I'm not going to share them on HN.
- rapnie 6y ago
  Agree, and on Matrix as well.
- MivLives 6y ago
  I've been looking on Mastadon, and not finding that much. Especially compared to Twitter. Might just be where I'm looking though.
TameAntelope 6y ago
I don’t know if you consider freenode to be “hosted by corporations” but if you don’t, the channels dedicated to both specific libraries and the languages themselves are at least active, last I checked. The one downside I’d point out is that language channels tend to be filled with purists, of the, “ you shouldn’t want to do that” variety.
susam 6y ago
I have been using IRC for for 14 years now. I began with DALnet, EFnet, Freenode, OFTC, etc. These days, I just use Freenode only because all the main communities around open source technologies seem to hang out there. Before StackOverflow was founded and became a thing, Freenode IRC was my primary source of help when I encountered issues in open source tools. I have learnt a lot from the #debian, ##math, and #not-math channels, especially. Some of my favourite channels on Freenode IRC include #lisp, #emacs, and #python. They have great communities with many regulars who have great attitude. These channels are also quite friendly to beginners. I still remember an interesting incident from 2006 when I posted a mathematics question to one of the channels. The channel was mostly quiet. After about 15 minutes, I got detailed answers from multiple members of the channel. 20 minutes or so later, I saw others posting Python questions to the same channel. That is when I realized that I had inadvertently posted a mathematics question in the #python channel. :)

I expected to see IRC communities as well. Is there a collection of communities that aren't hosted by corporations?

by shae 6y ago

I expected to see IRC communities as well. Is there a collection of communities that aren't hosted by corporations?

There's plenty of interesting places on IRC, mailing list, XMPP, Mastodon. Downvote me to hell, but best communities I hang out in are far from shiny/hip/popular, and this is why they are good.

JohnCurran 6y ago
Are there any in particular that you recommend?
- eeZah7Ux 6y ago
  I'm not going to share them on HN.
rapnie 6y ago
Agree, and on Matrix as well.
MivLives 6y ago
I've been looking on Mastadon, and not finding that much. Especially compared to Twitter. Might just be where I'm looking though.

TameAntelope 6y ago

I don’t know if you consider freenode to be “hosted by corporations” but if you don’t, the channels dedicated to both specific libraries and the languages themselves are at least active, last I checked. The one downside I’d point out is that language channels tend to be filled with purists, of the, “ you shouldn’t want to do that” variety.

susam 6y ago

I have been using IRC for for 14 years now. I began with DALnet, EFnet, Freenode, OFTC, etc. These days, I just use Freenode only because all the main communities around open source technologies seem to hang out there. Before StackOverflow was founded and became a thing, Freenode IRC was my primary source of help when I encountered issues in open source tools. I have learnt a lot from the #debian, ##math, and #not-math channels, especially. Some of my favourite channels on Freenode IRC include #lisp, #emacs, and #python. They have great communities with many regulars who have great attitude. These channels are also quite friendly to beginners. I still remember an interesting incident from 2006 when I posted a mathematics question to one of the channels. The channel was mostly quiet. After about 15 minutes, I got detailed answers from multiple members of the channel. 20 minutes or so later, I saw others posting Python questions to the same channel. That is when I realized that I had inadvertently posted a mathematics question in the #python channel. :)