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Thomas Adam

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I grew up when IRC was the main protocol to use for chatting about computer stuff in real-time. That was back on #freenode, when lilo used to run things (may he RIP).

Heck, when I worked at a previous company, we had an internal IRC server which we used to communicate internally with one-another.

So you end up understanding the "rules" -- especially around things like using pastebins, as well as knowing what can/cannot be shared easily.

That was ~20 years ago though.

Although IRC is still being used, even for some high-profile projects, I see more people join, and pasting in code snippets, treating them as markkdown code-blocks.

This, of course, won't wash with proper IRC clients such as #weechat -- which I've been a user of since forever.

Am I just getting old, or are people not aware of how to use IRC. I'm sure the young whipersnaper types will likely be ignorant, in which case if that's all it is... meh!

But it never used to be like this... 🙂

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HHG²TG¼²°

@brentdev
.. and on the other hand, you will certainly remember the time well (was that before Corona?) when, due to great egoism and the resulting loss of trust, freenode-irc became a no-go and thus destroyed for all people volunteering in free and open software #liberachat was created out of nowhere, which in turn resulted in a mass switch of all these good spirits to liberachat. This was unprecedented evidence of who the f(l)oss-fsf communities belong to mentally. Do you know a better example of positive conspiratorial and, above all, such great collective unity and clarity? Not me. This happened in no time without much talking. The good spirit called and everyone came. Well a few went to #OFTC, but even #Kali-Linux has a connection bot to liberachat because many of their fans were too quick to join libera. I have never experienced a major brain drain or should I say mind drain. The purest migration of good folks.
I don't mean to say that with what's left of #freenode there are only heartless zombies running around. My friends from PuppyLinux are still there (and also on lberachat) and are holding the fort because many Windows users are interested in #puppylinux to get started and are checking out freenode first.
You can see that so far I've only been on irc channels. Facebook x etc were never an option for me because even in their early days I foresaw that this could not have a good development for their users and for our society.

You know, I believe that the spirit here for many people is the same good spirit and I have already seen a few profiles that reinforce my belief. I think I will feel comfortable here.
Thank you for your welcome :D

#UNIX #Linux #FediVerse #FOSS #FLOSS #FSF #it'sTeaTimeFolks

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Gamliel Fishkin ✡️🕍🇮🇱

@yisraeldov I have lost a count how many times my acquaintances asked me if they can contact me via #WhatsApp. The nearest competitors are #Telegram and #Viber. Of the three mentioned #messengers, I use Telegram. I do not use #Matrix; I tried Matrix and not liked it (the same about #Tox). I use #XMPP aka #Jabber and also #SIP (#VoIP), but not actively for now. I used to use also #IRC until #Freenode gone to another owner.

#message#messaging#messenger
Servio Paladines

Libera Chat es una red de IRC, fundada el 19 de mayo de 2021, por los antiguos miembros de #Freenode debido a diferencias con la gestión que Andrew Lee estaba haciendo desde abril de 2021. La red fue fundada después de que la mayor parte de los voluntarios que gestionaban Freenode dimitiesen (Wikipedia).

Muchos proyectos de #softwarelibre tienen sus salas de conversación en este sitio, incluída la misma Free Software Fundación #FSF.

Puedes utilizar #LiberaChat desde su sitio web https://libera.chat y también desde el Cliente IRC de tu preferencia.

Nos leemos en el #Fediverso!

https://libretics.org/2024/03/01/de-vuelta-al-irc-con-libera-chat/

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