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what's your best internet community related memory, Beehaw? (self.chat)
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many people who have joined have related their extended stints on communities Reddit, Dig, Slashdot, or even older places like Usenet, and i'm super interested in what your best memories and favorite experiences on places like that have been in your time using them

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[–] Hexorg 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

IRC. Having a ton of inside jokes and situations funny enough to post on http://bash.org/

… also reading bash org for hours on end

[–] catacomb 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I really wish IRC survived. I was in a small IRC community a few years ago but, once everyone got jobs, there was little activity because it's not mobile friendly. The apps mostly suck and there's no push notifications.

Now we have a discord which is bridged to the mostly inactive IRC and, to be honest, I kind of hate it. We don't own it anymore and it's a proprietary app like the rest of them. I'd rather have a Signal group chat.

[–] Hexorg 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Matrix is dropped to be new IRC essentially

[–] catacomb 4 points 1 year ago

True and Matrix isn't bad. I wish we went there instead of Discord.

[–] m_talon 3 points 1 year ago

Sounds like someone needs to create a Fediverse version of Discord soon. :)

IRC was somewhat federated in its construction, but yeah it's not mobile friendly at all. It's barely Windows friendly, as it was designed to be ran on console/shell/terminal level.