God I wish I can get into it but there's barely anything going on there. Recommend me some active IRC channels or servers.
stop believing chat rooms are communities
>>109393079I mean it's just a filename but I don't see why a chatroom can't also have a community. Though that's besides the point.
Man, irc, that brings back some memories. That's like 20-25 years ago. Use to be on dalnet 6-8 hours a day. I still have chat logs. It was a thing when mircx came . Got DoS attack so hard it all disappeared. It's a pity,it was a lot of fun. Everyone got old,started families, moved on . Haven't been on a server for over 12 years i think. Changed comp and never reinstalled it.
>>109393142Yeah, I hear a lot that it's a really old protocol I think even existed before the world wide web. Some websites still use it and have an IRC channel but no one's in them whenever I join. I get that it's a thing for it's time but I really wanna escape big mainstream chat services like Discord and Telegram and IRC is brought up the most as a decentralized alternative. I might just be chasing for a community that doesn't exist anymore. If only I could've been there when it was in it's prime. If that's the case, I guess this thread can also act as a nostalgic throwback to share old stories about people's experiences with IRC.
>>109393061https://discord.gg/irc
boy, I sure love how irc exposes your ip address by default.if you don't want this, make sure to jump through hoops such as vhost and also take care it doesn't fall off during an automatic reconnect.
IRC is /g/'s Quake 3 Arena. LARPing pseudonerds using legacy software for nothing more than e-cred.Grow up. If you use IRC, fine, but pining for it is fucking gay.
>>109393247The way you use IRC Falls on you. Practice good Opsec. Some IRC servers support TOR or VPN's. Use a lightweight and reputable client. At least it's your fault if your IP gets exposed instead of being forced to use services that force you to do so.>>109393249I'm sure there's probably some stereotypefag I fall under on this board but I find it harder to use more popular alternatives because I can't do so without escaping surveillance and telemetry practices. Have people really shilled IRC on this board that much?
>>109393228cant use discord every account i make tells me to use link a phonenumber and i cant even use the same phonenumber on more than 1 account. Also, I almost got doxxed on there once.
>>109393279>I find it harder to use more popular alternatives because I can't do so without escaping surveillance and telemetry practices.IRCISLESSSECUREYOURETARD
>>109393361theres a difference between security and privacy. Again like i said in >>109393279 if you're careful with how you configure IRC, you can use it without your IP getting exposed. I'm okay if chat logs being collected, but not with companies building a profile on me.
>>109393247>I sure love how irc exposes your ip address by defaultRizon doesn't do that lol wtf are you talking about?
>>109393214It's pretty old, i started using it '97-'98 till '06-'07. Then sporadically, last time round '16-'17 i think.About privacy and surveillance, i certainly would not use irc for that. Times have changed. What do you think all those data centers are built for? Everything is logged, every word,every sound, every picture, everything . You don't hide anything anymore. . Leave the phone home and go for a walk with friends to have private conversations.
>>109393061you better watch out, those IRC boomers can easily hack you the second you join their server.they are brutal and look like pic related.
bph.pw
>>109393247>boy, I sure love how irc exposes your ip address by default.that's not inherent to irc, the server decides what it exposes like any server
>>109397067on most irc servers, you are seen to other users as something likeanon123!anon@104-53-180-232.lightspeed.sntcca.sbcglobal.net
>>109393061#homescreen on rizon is usually pretty active imo
>>109393249or we're just people who have been using irc since the 90s and never left because there's no reason to. but then again, i still connect to old BBSes that were around in the 90s and run a MUD so what do i know?
>>109393696>boomers>ircno. millennials? yes. but not boomers. they're still on dial-in BBSes or the handful of original BBSes that have added tcp/ip connecting.
>>109393061Can you join for free?Can you send files or just text?Emojis?Can you make calls or share screens?Can you send video?Can you stream?Is it really fast or really secure?None of those are deal breakers, just asking.
>>109393061Just idle like a normal IRC user.
>>109398733nta but...>Can you join for free?yes.>Can you send files or just text?You can send files. IRC DCC was one of the main ways pirating thrived in the 90s and early 2000s>Emojis?yes.>Can you make calls or share screens?No.>Can you send video?Not really. You can send video files over DCC but you can't video chat.>Can you stream?No.>Is it really fast or really secure?Fast, yes. Secure depends on the server and your IRC client setup.
>>109393061>the most active IRC channel in my country is #sex>it's 30+ year old fags looking to suck dicks
>>109398778Thanks! Actually useful to know.Final question, can I access IRC from a tor browser?
>>109399107Link? ..f-for a friend.
just run your own server and get your friends to join it thats what I did
>>109399143https://bgirc.com/index.html>8 AM on a workday
>>109393249I still play quake live because there is no alternative. I stopped using IRC ten years ago if not more because there is better alternatives. Chatting? Discord. Finding matchs or teams like back in the day on gamesurge or quakenet? Now games have matchmaking or there is special platforms like faceit. Sharing anime or movies? Torrent and Netflix. Not only IRC has become obsolete but also lost its substance.
>>109399224Yummy!
>>109393061>God I wish I can get into it but there's barely anything going on there. cool story, bro.>>109399232>things that never happenedreally cool story, bro. and then you discovered that your dad worked at nintendo and he's actually a woman. and other fantastic schizo tales. i'll be sure to pass on the info to the 5000+ people on this private IRC server i'm on, that IRC as an internet protocol doesn't exist anymore because pedophiles that use discord said so.
>>109393061i always wanted to be in a niche community or a secret club but i realize most people are lame faggots once you get to know them. Sometimes i day dream about starting my own secret club and inviting anons that are cool. We'd have a website that would be like our "club house" with a forum or image board for communication (NO live chatroom, that is lame and invites e-dating tier communication that not everyone can follow). We'd all have access to the server via our own user accounts and git so anyone could make improvements to the website code, and anyone could start new services to "improve the club house" so to speak. Maybe we'd do fun projects like start a collection of movies, music, e-books, leaked databases, cracked games, etc. Maybe we could setup a IPTV pirate stream that could could access via a "TV" tab on the website which you could also setup your own streams to watch movies together and whatnot. Maybe we'd program our own chan framework to have better performance & features than traditional chan frameworks. Maybe we'd eventually host free file servers & proxy servers for anyone to use. People would contribute what they felt like none of it would be forced.But then alas i wake up and realize this is a pretty cringe idea and nobody would bond over this "club house" in the way i imagine and of course nobody would want to contribute this amount of work either. It would just go the way of every other /g/ project ever which went stale after someone made the logo, and nobody would ever post or say anything except for performative shit like on private tracker forums. Oh well.
>>109400610>5000+ peopleLmao. This is nothing. At its peak, quakenet had 250 000 connected users and there was 100x less internet users in the world back then. How many are bots or bouncers now? IRC is dead. The discord server of something like marvel rivals has one million connected users.
>>109399128nta but it depends on the server. The servers can see if you are connecting from a Tor exit node and it's not uncommon for them to block the connection when they do. There are however plenty of servers that allow Tor connections through onion links. If they do they probably say so on their website. Smaller to medium-sized tech and privacy focused servers would be a good place to start.so yes but not all servers
>>109393247>retard doesn't know about bouncers>retard doesn't know they're piss-easy to run one.
>>109393300>Also, I almost got doxxed on there once.How stupid do you have to be to "almost" get doxxed on Disord, of all places?
>>109393361YOUCAN RUNYOUROWNIRCSERVERYOURETARD
>>109394226fuck off we're full
>>109398733>Can you join for free?Yes.>Can you send files or just text?Yes.>Emojis?Yes.>Can you make calls or share screens?No. You don't need to.>Can you send video?Yes. Links are all you need.>Can you stream?No. You don't need to.>Is it really fast or really secure?Yes.
>>109400961>i always wanted to be in a niche community or a secret club but i realize most people are lame faggots once you get to know them.Who, in your opinoin, would qualify as someone who's not a "lame faggot"?>NO live chatroom, that is lame and invites e-dating tier communication that not everyone can followDisagree. A chat is a good place to start. If the people in the chat aren't "lame faggots," then you wouldn't have the "e-dating tier communication" problem.>We'd all have access to the server via our own user accounts and git so anyone could make improvements to the website code, and anyone could start new services to "improve the club house" so to speak. I'm in plenty of these "clubhouses," and the "services" have always been gay and unnecessary. Most people use chat, and that's where everything happens.
>>109401945ah yes, rent a server and set up a bouncer, real easy and free! (not)
