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• jqubed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Does IRC still exist? I remember laughing when I first saw Slack and its early competitors because people were excited about it and when I finally used it I realized it was basically just IRC with a nicer interface. I’m assuming these offer improvements like encryption?

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  • admin@lemmy.my-box.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Nah, there’s tons of features that slack has over irc. To start with inline media (images, audio, video), but most importantly lots of out of the box external integrations and webhooks.

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    • jqubed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yeah, now there is, but I don’t think a lot of those features were in when I first used it over a decade ago. It became a lot more useful over the years.

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      • Kushan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It didn’t require using arcane commands just to sign up and log in. I love IRC and will always remember it fondly, but it wasn’t easy for a novice to use and that’s why things like slack and discord took off.

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  • 0x0@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yes, IRC still exists… as does XMPP.

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• tsonfeir@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Is there a decent client? Desktop and mobile?

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  • thepaperpilot@incremental.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    For matrix specifically, I recommend fluffy chat on mobile and cinny for web/desktop. Most notably, they both support the not-yet-official spec on custom emojis and stickers, which I think is important for any slack-like.

    For the server (since you want to self host), you'd probably want to do Synapse - it supports not being federated as well as SSO. Also it wasn't mentioned by mp3, but xmpp is another protocol that's used by many large companies for internal chat systems as well.

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