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I don't understand the question. IRC is a real-time chat protocol and twitter is a proprietary micro-blogging website. I don't see how the two are related, othe

I don't understand the question. IRC is a real-time chat protocol and twitter is a proprietary micro-blogging website. I don't see how the two are related, other than they are both something to do with the Internet.

tinktank 5y ago
Don't be disingenuous.
heywherelogingo 5y ago
You do understand the question, you've just decided to respond in a silly way.
- cwyers 5y ago
  It's not a silly response. The thing about IRC is that there's channels, and you chat with people in those channels. The deal with Twitter is you both publish and subscribe to short messages, but there's no enforcement of reciprocity -- I don't have to follow someone just because they follow me. There are replies, but that's not the same thing, and Twitter is starting to give people more tools to restrict replies to their Tweets, making the platform even less reciprocal. Everyone in an IRC channel gets the same experience, everyone on Twitter gets a unique experience.
- dang 5y ago
  Would you please stop posting flamebait and/or unsubstantive comments to HN? If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful.
- epistasis 5y ago
  If my only current understanding of a question is "that's a silly question," then I'm also going to assume first that it's my failure to understand rather than assuming something worse about someone else.
- lowkey_ 5y ago
  The above commenter is correct, the original question is silly, however much flak they may get as people here love IRC. Do you genuinely believe (1) IRC is anywhere near as usable as Twitter for the general population, or that (2) a real-time chat is an equivalent offering to Twitter?
  - throwaway894345 5y ago
    I'll add (3) the only reason IRC isn't equally abused is because it's so bad that it can't attract enough people to justify any kind of ad-based (or otherwise) monetization model. IRC is the opposite of being a victim of one's own success. EDIT: I should note that beyond being more usable than IRC, I have precious little good to say about Twitter.
  - dorkwood 5y ago
    You just need to make an IRC channel that contains everyone in the world.
    - blitz_skull 5y ago
      Well to compare that to Twitter you'd also have to have everyone in the world on Twitter which is overwhelmingly not the case.
    - Arnavion 5y ago
      No, it would be one channel per person. Only you would be able to talk (post) in your channel. People who want to read your posts would join your channel. Private DMs easily map to one-on-one privmsgs. Public replies and threads won't have an equivalent unless there was some meta-protocol to temporarily allow another person to talk in your channel + duplicate your posts in your channel to theirs + expire that access eventually. Also subscribing to tags won't work without a similar "copy all messages from one channel to another" relay.
      - eurasiantiger 5y ago
        Channels are basically tags, without history for those who join. Anyone can PRIVMSG a channel by default, it is prevented by setting the common +n mode.

tinktank 5y ago

Don't be disingenuous.

heywherelogingo 5y ago

You do understand the question, you've just decided to respond in a silly way.

cwyers 5y ago
It's not a silly response. The thing about IRC is that there's channels, and you chat with people in those channels. The deal with Twitter is you both publish and subscribe to short messages, but there's no enforcement of reciprocity -- I don't have to follow someone just because they follow me. There are replies, but that's not the same thing, and Twitter is starting to give people more tools to restrict replies to their Tweets, making the platform even less reciprocal. Everyone in an IRC channel gets the same experience, everyone on Twitter gets a unique experience.
dang 5y ago
Would you please stop posting flamebait and/or unsubstantive comments to HN? If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful.
epistasis 5y ago
If my only current understanding of a question is "that's a silly question," then I'm also going to assume first that it's my failure to understand rather than assuming something worse about someone else.
lowkey_ 5y ago
The above commenter is correct, the original question is silly, however much flak they may get as people here love IRC. Do you genuinely believe (1) IRC is anywhere near as usable as Twitter for the general population, or that (2) a real-time chat is an equivalent offering to Twitter?
- throwaway894345 5y ago
  I'll add (3) the only reason IRC isn't equally abused is because it's so bad that it can't attract enough people to justify any kind of ad-based (or otherwise) monetization model. IRC is the opposite of being a victim of one's own success. EDIT: I should note that beyond being more usable than IRC, I have precious little good to say about Twitter.
- dorkwood 5y ago
  You just need to make an IRC channel that contains everyone in the world.
  - blitz_skull 5y ago
    Well to compare that to Twitter you'd also have to have everyone in the world on Twitter which is overwhelmingly not the case.
  - Arnavion 5y ago
    No, it would be one channel per person. Only you would be able to talk (post) in your channel. People who want to read your posts would join your channel. Private DMs easily map to one-on-one privmsgs. Public replies and threads won't have an equivalent unless there was some meta-protocol to temporarily allow another person to talk in your channel + duplicate your posts in your channel to theirs + expire that access eventually. Also subscribing to tags won't work without a similar "copy all messages from one channel to another" relay.
    - eurasiantiger 5y ago
      Channels are basically tags, without history for those who join. Anyone can PRIVMSG a channel by default, it is prevented by setting the common +n mode.