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rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Are you against IRC for the same reason?

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  • rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    IRC isn’t controlled by a single (shady) company

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  • kilgore_trout@feddit.it ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    IRC allows archiving

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    • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      How so?

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      • T156@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You can easily log and archive things that happen on an open protocol, not so much a proprietary one like discord.

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  • EngineerGaming@feddit.nl ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Servers can be hosted by anyone; there is usually no account needed to join the chat; it would not randomly demand a phone number or an ID; it does not get pissed over people not using a very specific piece of bloated spyware… So nope, not against.

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    • optimal@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      also, IRC logs are usually public and searchable. that’s actually how we got hunter2

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  • drndramrndra@lemmygrad.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You never saw an IRC chatroom archive?

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