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I went to the Freenode site and read the description and I still don’t know what Freenode is. Sometimes trying to understand the tech world is like zooming into
by satisfice 5y ago
I went to the Freenode site and read the description and I still don’t know what Freenode is. Sometimes trying to understand the tech world is like zooming into the Mandelbrot set.
But what I like about this feed is that I am constantly being exposed to new things.
- pteraspidomorph 5y agoIt's the FOSS IRC network, or if you don't know what that is, a network of chat servers where you can find official channels for many major FOSS projects, as well as a large community of people who want to discuss them in real time. At the time of writing >76k people are online.
- fouc 5y agofreenode is a popular network of IRC servers aimed at open source projects and technical topics. IRC is "internet relay chat", it's a very simple protocol, you can even telnet into an IRC server. Though there are lots of IRC clients that make it much nicer to handle multiple channels and direct messages and so on. IRC was super popular from the 90s up until Slack showed up.