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Chobbes@lemmy.world 5 months agoOr maybe… How is discord any worse of a privacy nightmare than IRC? I love me some IRC, but it ain’t exactly a bastion of secrecy.
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Chobbes@lemmy.world 5 months agoOr maybe… How is discord any worse of a privacy nightmare than IRC? I love me some IRC, but it ain’t exactly a bastion of secrecy.
EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 5 months ago
IRC clients don’t have loads of telemetry like Discord does. And IRC is a protocol instead of a platform, so there isn’t a single set of servers hosting and logging ALL conversations.
Chobbes@lemmy.world 5 months ago
That’s fair, but IRC also tends to leak information about users to everybody. They’re maybe bad or slightly different ways, but frankly if you care about privacy that much you probably shouldn’t use either, at least not with additional protections.
EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 5 months ago
IRC doesn’t even see that much info about each user to begin with, especially compared to Discord, and if you’re talking about public IPs - hiding them from other users is now a common thing on servers.