Comment on FLOSS communities right now

• 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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      • xenoclast@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Is it possible to have a server/channel bot publicly export channel activity?

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      • AMDIsOurLord@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        IRC archivers just idle on a server and record anything that comes by. You can do that with Discord. Matter of fact, I keep regular archive backups of a server we have that’s full of news

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      • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You can’t search an IRC channel for previous conversations, though? Isn’t that what we were talking about?

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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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