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Ask HN: Great communties on Mastadon, IRC, Forums other small networks?
I'm a car enthusiast. Some of the best communities for cars are very much based on web forums, despite having a large presence in popular social media.
A lot of open source communities are active on IRC.
What are some communities that you're aware of that have it's primary base on the old internet, and the new open internet?
- mattl 2y agoSadly IRC is fast becoming a ghost town. When projects flocked from Freenode to Libera a lot of people dropped IRC all together. Which is a shame, modern IRC clients are pretty good.
- hammyhavoc 2y agoMatrix protocol is pretty lively these days. Quite a few FOSS projects using it and that's spurring adoption, e.g., NixOS.
- mattl 2y agoYeah, I started using Element yesterday. One of the busiest IRC channels I still see has most people using either Slack or Matrix via bridges.
- clipsy 2y agoUnfortunately the nature of the modern internet means that the best way to preserve a great community in the short term is to keep it secret.