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  • Re: IRC, the good, the ba

    From calcmandan@VERT/DIGDIST to Starman on Sat Sep 12 07:13:00 2020
    Starman wrote to Ogg <=-

    Re: Re: IRC, the good, the bad, the alternatives
    By: Ogg to All on Wed Sep 09 2020 18:03:00

    That was brutal. Perhaps it made sense when a group of people
    could coordinate a meet-up on IRC at a specific time. But it
    was hit'n'miss for me.

    Rheingold's book on virtual communities (available online free these
    days) talks about IRC in one chapter. In the (mid?) '90s that he writes about, idling with bouncers and the like was the exception, not the
    norm. People were online for a limited period of time, and there to
    talk. It was purely real-time communication, not the horrible stripped-down forum/mailing list thing people use it as these days.

    Same with social MOOs and stuff. All the real-time socializing and
    RPing has been basically supplanted by Telegram and so on, obviating, rather ironically, the need to be online for any length of time to participate.

    Starman, do you use IRC these days?

    Daniel Traechin

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  • From Starman@VERT/STARBRDS to calcmandan on Mon Sep 14 11:09:09 2020
    Re: Re: IRC, the good, the ba
    By: calcmandan to Starman on Sat Sep 12 2020 07:13:00

    Starman, do you use IRC these days?

    Not daily, no. I sometimes pop into the Tildeverse IRC servers, and I occasionally am on EFnet.

    A big part of it is that as I've gotten older, there are fewer and fewer things I'm *that* interested in that I want to read/participate in mindless small talk about it over and over again. When I was younger I used to be in a couple of game- and book- (or author-) related channels. Nowadays, even if the channels were still there and had people in 'em, I just can't muster the enthusiasm.

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  • From calcmandan@VERT/DIGDIST to Starman on Thu Sep 17 18:14:00 2020
    Starman wrote to calcmandan <=-

    Re: Re: IRC, the good, the ba
    By: calcmandan to Starman on Sat Sep 12 2020 07:13:00

    Starman, do you use IRC these days?

    Not daily, no. I sometimes pop into the Tildeverse IRC servers, and I occasionally am on EFnet.

    A big part of it is that as I've gotten older, there are fewer and
    fewer things I'm *that* interested in that I want to read/participate
    in mindless small talk about it over and over again. When I was younger
    I used to be in a couple of game- and book- (or author-) related
    channels. Nowadays, even if the channels were still there and had
    people in 'em, I just can't muster the enthusiasm.

    I have a jump server that I use running, among other things, Quassel Core. It keeps me connected to all the irc servers I use. It caches all the conversations
    and keeps me logged in. Before discovering it, I had to keep multiple aliases since I would keep my home computer connected. With the core, I removed all the aliases since I have clients that connect to the core and I can talk out of the same username.

    Anyway, I still enjoying chatting with people especially on technical channels.

    Daniel Traechin

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