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[-] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 47 points 1 year ago

It's like IRC. Just zany enough to keep out the riff raff.

[-] speaker_hat@lemmy.one 16 points 1 year ago
[-] Veltoss@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

/slap speaker_hat

*Veltoss slaps speaker_hat around with a large trout.

[-] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

This just awakened some repressed IRC memories I didn't know I had.

[-] absentthereaper@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago

That mIRC flashback hit me like a Vietnam vet's PTSD...

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

You have been kicked from #Lemmy.

[-] Erk@cdda.social 8 points 1 year ago

IRC is hugely flawed but also, I miss it. Could we have a federated discord? It'd basically be irc but easier to find stuff right?

[-] el_doso@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that what Matrix is?

[-] Erk@cdda.social 12 points 1 year ago

All matrix is to me is a classic late nineties action sci fi movie.

[-] Seven@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The Matrix but they use the Matrix protocol on a The Matrix themed Matrix IRC channel talking about talking about The Matrix in the Matrix protocol in a The Matrix themed Matrix IRC channel (woops sorry that is the Matrix 2 I think my bad)

[-] Flemmy@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

There's also a way to add matrix usernames to Lemmy accounts, so it's possible to make an app that ties the two together. Is that a feature people would care about?

[-] imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago
[-] Veltoss@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Man I'd love that. I feel like we will soon honestly. I just hope the lemmy/Kbin apps bring these other federated projects inside, so we can do it all on one app too.

[-] Val@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

matrix.org is basically IRC 2.0. It's federated and has a lot of cool clients.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Wasn't IRC itself pretty much federated, just maybe not calling it that yet? Networked I think they called it. You'd have a bunch of servers in a network and users could join channels and chat with users on other networks. Every now and then you'd get a server split where some subset of servers would lose connection with the rest and a bunch of people would all leave the channel at once. Then, it would resolve, and they'd come flooding back in.

[-] marx2k@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yes. For example, you'd have a collection of servers that federated to create EFnet. DaLnet, etc. Joining any of those servers would get you onto that federated network. You could be banned from one server but you could always choose another to still get into the same network. And yes, netsplits happened. A lot.

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