You can’t even see the history in many channels.
Because it’s stable and reliable. Other protocols come and go every 10 years.
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it’s FOSS
Why not?
Why is seeing the history so important?
If you mean backlog from when you were afk/away then you can solve that with a bouncer.
Anyone can host an IRC server. Discord is not a charity, you don’t get all that cotton candy for free.
There is matrix
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- There is literally nothing better, discord is closed source, matrix is slow and buggy
- It gets the job done with no fan fair
- It self moderates, only people willing to jump through the hoops to talk constructivly will do so
- Retro tech is fun
It self moderates
From what Mozilla found, the opposite is true. It’s quite difficult to stop abuse, to the point where they ended their IRC network. It is, however, fabulously good at being a barrier to entry into any community that chooses to use it, and not in a good way. When the community locks itself away behind technical walls, we exclude people based mostly on current technical ability.
If you want to (constructively) participate in a technical community and are held off by a decades old chat protocol with literally hundreds of tutorials and step-by-step guides online, maybe this barrier of entry is exactly for your kind…
Despite the common opinion (mainly prevalent in IT), not everyone should be given an equal platform just because he has something to say. The opinion of a conspiracy nutjob on vaccines is not equal to that of an epidemiologist with a PhD, the opinion of a DIY tinkerer on wiring a house is not equal to that of a trained electrician, etc. For all those fields, gatekeepers are common and far greater than simply the ability to install a freaking IRC client.
Because it works, is FOSS, and isn’t buggy.
