#irc

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... 🙂

All this #Fosstodon drama remember me #freenode I know the reasons to move to other instance are differents, but I can't stop to thing that #fosstodon is freenode and probably #flosssocial is #liberachat

Musk's takeover of Twitter and later of the whole friggin' US government bears many similarities with the hostile takeover of FreeNode by Andrew Lee.

https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/q6k9md/ircfreenode_this_is_not_a_hostile_takeover_says/

#freenode #twitter #musk #andrewlee #hostiletakeover

I never thought the hostile takeover of #freenode would have an equivalent in geopilitics.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenode

#elonmusk #trump #hostiletakeover #siege

#Twitter / #X / #Xitter is the new #freenode. #Changemymind

A video mentions #FreeNode, I look at the upload / publication date and feel 16 years older...

The Evolution of Internet Relay Chat (IRC)

Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is one of the oldest forms of real-time communication on the internet. It was created in August 1988 by Jarkko Oikarinen, a Finnish programmer, as a replacement for a program called MUT (MultiUser Talk) on the University of Oulu's network.

Read More: https://machaddr.substack.com/p/the-evolution-of-internet-relay-chat

#IRC #Chat #OpenSource #Internet #Network #Freenode #Libera #Linux #Computer #Science #Rooms

@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 #itsTeaTimeFolks

@sixtus bin immernoch erstaunt, wie schnell der Sprung vom #IRC Netzwerk #Freenode nach #LiberaChat 2021 ging: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libera_Chat#/media/File:IRC_top_10_networks_2021.png
(und ja, ich weiß, ich bin wohl auch ein bisschen alt, weil ich IRC erwähne :D )

https://wiki.letspiss.net/wiki/Main_Page
Pissnet my beloved #irc #freenode

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/

#Fediverso #Freenode #FSF #LiberaChat #SoftwareLibre

The Interim Computer Festival iRC server is online at

zelazny.as21903.net:6667 #icf

A former #freenode #server

Join in the damgud cyber chatting phun!

#irc #chat

@erik Most everyone moved to @liberachat after #Freenode shut down. #IRC is still alive and well, just elsewhere.

No real surprise that #Matrix use seems to be declining pretty rapidly after the initial hype from the #Freenode debacle. Pretty much every time I go to see what's on there I have to re-auth every device. Not a great user interface.

@carnage4life sounds like Leenode, I mean, #freenode, all over again.

Elon Musk's acquisition of #Twitter is starting to resemble Andrew Lee's takeover of the #freenode IRC network.