Maybe it's me being too young to understand #IRC, can someone help me out here?
People tend to lump it in the same "federated" box as the Fediverse or XMPP/Matrix, even though to my knowledge, it isn't really federated at all?
On public servers, you have to periodically message Nickserv to stay signed in with a nickname. It's pretty annoying. Can I use a client certificate for that? How do I do that?
My IP is public when I'm in a room, most of the time. That's kinda uncomfortable.
Did you know there's an #interlisp IRC channel at Libera.Chat? It's usually pretty quiet but feel free to ask questions, share your Interlisp projects, or start discussions.
The fact that you see very little presence of the larger cryptocurrency community on the Fediverse shows the actual interest in distributed systems compared to their interest in making money. A large part of the cryptocurrency community are just VCs or wannabe VCs.
a lot of crypto people don't really carea bout the values, they just want money, like you said
there's like a half dozen blockchains based social media networks fighting for a very small pie at any given time (bluesky, farcaster, lens) and because network effects are what they are, none are winning against big bird
the really hardcore decentralists (like the #monero crowd) vault right past Mastodon to maximally decentralized and encryptable services like #irc and #Matrix
an existing culture in the broader fediverse that's deeply hostile to crypto
Taken altogether, it makes it seem improbable that we'll see crypto communities congregate in the Fediverse
I understand the reason for this - organization and coordination are difficult tasks. And the team responsible for resolving conflicts should not itself be a source of misunderstanding and conflict.
For this purpose #discord is a very useful, but flawed tool. And alternatives (e.g. #Matrix, #IRC, #Email and #Jitsi) have their own issues - some are just down to network effects, others actually lack features making them less useful for coordination.
#Mastodon introducing #QT#QTs on future release tells me this ship may not be heading into the iceberg that #Usenet and #IRC hit in their arrogance of not listening to their users. #Twitter#Bluesky
@mmasnick Thank you! You've changed my opinion on #BlueSky with this post.
Also, maybe you intended for this to be the obvious conclusion of your own, and if it was I agree. It won't matter if we use BlueSky, #Mastodon or #nostr in the end. Content will mostly federate freely inbetween the protocols.
As an example: If people ask me if I'm still on #IRC the answer is "yes", although for me IRC channels are just additional #Matrix rooms nowadays.
I have this hypothesis that people who came up through #Twitter without ever spending time on #IRC are more intimidated by #Mastodon having instances and stuff than those who did. I don't know; what do you think?
I don't think people appreciate the role that #OperaSoftware played in fostering the #OpenWeb and #IndieWeb during the first #browserWar (when the #OperaBrowser was still built on their proprietary #Presto engine), and a fortiori the role it had in their demise (when they switched to being “just another #WebKit/#Blink skin”), despite their browser never even reaching a 3% market share.
The Opera/Presto browser was pretty close to being a “swiss army knife” for the web. Aside from the #browser with a solid and modern rendering engine with decent standard support (for the time), it also integrated (in the same UI!) a workable #email client, a decent #IRC client, and a competitive #RSS reader. The browser itself not only had better support for web standards than some of the competitors (including WebKit) in many areas, but it also put effort in supporting #microformats
In real life: I hang out with my school's student theatre club, the RIT Players. I like #improv, #cycling, #racquetball, #transit, and traveling. I love my family.