As a user of pidgin and IRC, my very biased answer would be yes :) The rest of the world would probably say no of course. You just have to choose which bubble

As a user of pidgin and IRC, my very biased answer would be yes :) The rest of the world would probably say no of course. You just have to choose which bubbles you are part of. Global discourse on walled gardens, or geeks in a corner on IRC, or both, or neither.