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Not the OP but I'll bite -- I've seen some incredible counterculture emerging out of what I like to term the IRC revival, or Discord communities. Discord and Ro
by yowlingcat 6y ago
Not the OP but I'll bite -- I've seen some incredible counterculture emerging out of what I like to term the IRC revival, or Discord communities. Discord and Roblox have fueled the communities creating a ton of the more interesting music I've discovered over the past year.
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- smolder 6y agoYeah, but discord is centralized and comes with all the related problems. IRC you can host yourself and it's not really dead, being a protocol.
- yowlingcat 6y agoWhat is a protocol, really? In a literal sense, you can say only something that's IRC compatible is IRC. But in a more figurative sense, aren't Discord communities merely using Discord the way folks use to use IRC? Isn't Discord just centralized IRC, then, because that's how people use it and what they're using it for? Centralization poses censorship and control risks that IRC doesn't, for sure. But it also adds ubiquity. That's key for a community.