Clarification:
I know he’s Big Brother’s lackey, but lately I’ve been really lacking communication, apparently I’ve fallen for this hook.
I haven’t been able to find any real-life communication for years now, but I’ve been increasingly reluctant to risk communicating while Big Brother is watching. There are good alternatives to Discord?
If you are interested in checking out IRC, aka chat rooms using technology from the 90s, come check out ##degoogle on libera.net.
https://web.libera.chat/##degoogle
On IRC if no one answers, they might not be there, but they’ll often answer when they get back.
Another channel you might try is ##chat which is general purpose. There is also a list of channels you can search, or you can ask people for recommendations. Bestof luck out there! Come say hi!
https://web.libera.chat/##chat
Is most IRC’s chatroom active nowadays? I have been meaning to try other alternatives to Discord but always find them to be very hit and miss
It really depends on the channel, but sadly, mostly no. I am in one cool one that is part of the tildes network, and I am in lots of ones on libera, but they are less active than they were 20 years ago. There are still many people on there, and it is a good vibe. Especially if you want to chat about programming or FOSS stuff.
If you try it and like it, it is worthwhile to configure a always-on connection that you can detach and reattach to - which is how discord and everything modern works. IRC being old means it is an extra thing to do, bit well worth it! Some people never go that route though.
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Bah, the young ones joining IRC through a web interface. Back in my day, we used telnet, typed the IRC commands by hand and hoped we were quick enough to reply to PING to not get kicked from the server.
Well, not really but I did it occasionally to better understand how the protocol works.
Well we still chiseled our chat messages into stone and sent them by pigeon. We usyally got pinged out before we even finished the first letter.
gotta use mIRC32 :D
I was a fan of Miranda IM because that’s what I used for everything else (ICQ, MSN, XMPP, AIM, occasionally Skype though that plugin didn’t work that well). If I remember correctly, joining multiple servers was a bit more cumbersome than with other clients but having everything in one application was amazing.
Miranda NG is still actually around and being updated! It works pretty well for IRC, XMPP, Telegram, Discord, and a few others that I haven’t tried. Still Windows only tho