And what about people who are smart enough to use it but still use WhatsApp or other messengers instead of IRC?i have zero interest of communicating 'on the go' with anyone that isnt smart enough to be able to use IRC
How does IRC handle intermittent connectivity? Like if you are going in and out of service area?i have zero interest of communicating 'on the go' with anyone that isnt smart enough to be able to use IRC
I see! I've never tried mosh.MOSH handles that well. SSH to a shell server, set up IRC client in screen/tmux, mosh in.
SSH to a shell server, set up IRC client in screen/tmux, mosh in.
So basically limiting communication to pyra members onlyi have zero interest of communicating 'on the go' with anyone that isnt smart enough to be able to use IRC
Oh wow, most people I've ever met either uses Discord or Facebook Messenger now. I tried IRC back in the mid 2000s but that's about it.i'm in over 200 irc channels, just 1 is about pyra
You've been hanging out with the wrong groups of peopleOh wow, most people I've ever met either uses Discord or Facebook Messenger now. I tried IRC back in the mid 2000s but that's about it.
Even around that time, everyone I knew used MSN/Windows Live Messenger or Skype.
Personally, IRC is a lot more about reaching people you don't know than those you do. Though I do use it to communicate with groups of friends as well.Oh wow, most people I've ever met either uses Discord or Facebook Messenger now. I tried IRC back in the mid 2000s but that's about it.
Even around that time, everyone I knew used MSN/Windows Live Messenger or Skype.
Personally, IRC is a lot more about reaching people you don't know than those you do. Though I do use it to communicate with groups of friends as well.
Lately IM has been catching up to this, but them all being incompatible walled gardens means you can't build anything that survives the company failing (AIM is IIRC being shut down) or being bought and merged into some other network (like skype). Matrix is a good try for an alternative, as is XMPP. Any true successor to IRC will need to be federated between independent servers, completely open and as close to the simplicity of the protocol as any new features allow.
Discord, Slack, Flowdock, Skype, Messenger, WhatsApp, Telegram (AFAIK) and any other closed server single-provider walled gardens can never replace IRC for all use cases.
I know this is just a joke, but you gotta hear me out. It's just convenient for most people.You've been hanging out with the wrong groups of people
Yes, just a joke, and no offense intended.I know this is just a joke, but you gotta hear me out. It's just convenient for most people.
If I somehow managed to get my mates to switch to IRC, I'd be the guy having to host a private server in my house and port forward OR pay some company online monthly to host one. The majority of my IRL mates wouldn't have a clue how to do that.
Or you know we could just make an account on a pre-existing service like Discord or Messenger. Sure the service itself is closed but you can customize your server/group heavily anyway.
The only people I would've met to know all that, are people from those computer courses. Which I wanted to punch in the face for being really unfunny
Yes, just a joke, and no offense intended.
It's all a matter of personal choice; I'm just uncomfortable that my personal information and communications are seen as purely a commodity. So i choose not to use them.
Protip, don't use your real name or phone number
In fact I think the only site I've used my real name is on PayPal or when I'm filling out billing information
Hence why it's called "Kippykip II", the same thing happened to my old account so this is my 2nd one.I'm doing similar thing. But the problem is that if you make your "e-personality" (your comments, forum posts, published creations) dependent on monopoly such as FB, it may lock your account and e.g. ask for... scan of ID document! Yes, it happened before. ID is full of sensitive data, you can take a loan with it, transfer of such data is highly regulated, but if someone is monopoly regulations are not obligatory for them. So avoid relying too much on FB with nickname.