10 reasons reddit / irc ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Machinehum · 2020-03-04 05:00 I use IRC... 1. Because protocols never die. While Slack, Discord, Skype, MSN, etc... might be gone (or already gone) in years, the IRC protocol will exist forever. Even if there are zero users. 2. Because it's closer to a normal conversation. When you enter a room of people you ask, what's going on? You don't have buffer of all the shit thats happened previously. 3. Because I can use whatever client I want. Be it CLI, GUI, browser based, etc... 4. Because anyone, anywhere, with a shitty laptop can host a server. If there's an apocalypse, radio, IRC and cockroaches will still be around. 5. Because it's permissionless. Register your nick... or not. 6. Because it's not monitored by default. Unlike some other services. 7. Because it's open. 8. Because it's real time, social media is focused on upvoting and downvoting to move content around. IRC is first come first serve, for better or for worse. No hive minds, just a bunch of small ones ;) 9. Because of Anonymity. nuff said 10. Insert your reason here Catch you on freenode... maybe efnet when I'm drunk. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- AltReality · 2020-03-04 05:13 Good list. I would just note that nick registration (and services in general) are not actually part of the RFC ( [1495](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1459), [2810](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2810), [2811](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2811), [2812](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2812), [2813](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2813), [7194](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7194) ). They are typical enough to be called standard these days, but they are additional to the protocol itself. By that same token, calling it permissionless isn't really accurate either - Serverops and chanops and network ops....they all have varying degrees of rights. And some servers can be password protected...or some channels as well. (In glancing over RFC1495 I see Services as a header, but it doesn't specify nickserv/chanserv/otherserv....I'm not sure it's referring to Services as we think of them) Also, IRC is only anonymous because a server implements DNS masking...it is also not part of the protocol and is not required by all servers, even though it is generally thought of as standard these days. I don't mean to dump all over your parade...I really do think it is a good list :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Machinehum · 2020-03-04 05:31 +1 for someone who knows more than me :-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NMJ87 · 2020-03-04 08:54 You and i would be great pals. I cannot stand how the world has shifted to XMPP proprietary platforms. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- lazyfingersy · 2020-03-04 13:21 Pretty much same, still on Freenode,Efnet, DALnet and anonops. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- pixienop · 2020-03-05 00:17 For reference, the 'services' the 281\* RFCs refer to were basically attempts to introduce privileged client connections that could handle what services typically do today. Most everyone just stuck with the S2S-linked pseudoservers to provide their 'service clients' though :D ---------------------------------------------------------------------- AltReality · 2020-03-05 00:39 Aah.. thanks for the clarification :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- onebts · 2020-03-07 03:11 Agree on all counts.. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BlindSins · 2020-03-07 15:23 I agree with all of them, however, I am confused about #9. I thought I can't stay anon. unless I am behind a VPN or have the bouncer hosted somewhere. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Machinehum · 2020-03-07 21:50 Doesn't need KYC, so sure people can get your IP but several other services need a Name etc ---------------------------------------------------------------------- tejassanap · 2020-04-02 07:14 never heard of `anonops`? sounds interesting. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- lorderikstark0 · 2020-04-02 19:44 One more advantage that I can think of is writing your custom script in the irc