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Irc Forever (koshka.love)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I found myself loving what this guy writes about IRC, and I think a lot of his words will go straight to the heart of specially the older nerds here on Lemmy.

Hope you enjoy.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

For me IRC scores points on not having push notifications, rich text, custom emojis, embedded images/video, etc. It's plain text communication — multiplayer notepad, if you will — and it's great at what it does. I love that I don't need anything but a terminal window for utilizing the full capabilities of IRC, and the lack of persistent chat history is a great counter to FOMO. (Yeah, you can stay online or have a bot that logs everything — the point is that most people don't.)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Thats a nice point actually. Sometimes less is more.