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Bring back? They never left.
There are literally Usenet communities on Lemmy with guides on how to connect.
Where?
Searching Usenet in Voyager yielded over a dozen results. !usenet@lemmy.dbzer0.com seems to be somewhat active.
The channels I liked are all gone now though
you can just go on irc right now you know
I want to get back to IRC but it's been a decade and a half. How do I get there, do I need some software and is there any good way to discover channels?
get a client that supports ircv3 and look for servers that do too. i believe you can query servers for public channels. i think quakenet is still up, but freenode went through a hostile takeover a few years ago and everyone dropped it for libera chat.
Thank you, I will look those up!
Hello, I am "they"
It's "back". You may use it now
Sick, thank you.
Well people still use those. Idk if you remember how bad irc is though. It’s pretty terrible.
ircv3 adds a lot of features and convenience. but i guess you're talking about the people.
No I meant the software. People are bad everywhere. Guess I haven’t used it in a while. Does it have reactions? Native saving of conversation history? Threads?
yes, yes, and uh... i don't know. it could be added i suppose, the big thing ircv3 added is a modular capabilities system so it's basically become extensible while remaining backwards-compatible. personally, threads just feels like one of those things that get in the way 90% of the time, and if you really want to spin out a conversation you can just create an ad-hoc channel.
Neat. Well maybe it is time to go back to irc then.
"They should bring back user forums" says last man on user forum.
While I appreciate what you are getting at, these platforms do not offer equivalent utility. Live screen sharing is the biggest feature that comes to mind for me.
Edit: oh and the reverb fart soundboard button.
Movim is angling to become a decentralized self host able discord replacement.
Have you tried it yourself?
Do you find it good?
I've been interested in Fluxer for a while now but haven't made the move yet.
I've been using it for the past 3 or so years now. The discord-like features are quite new still, and could use a bit more polish in the UX. I think the biggest stumbling block with it currently is that notifications don't work reliably on mobile, requiring a second XMPP app like Conversations, which does have reliable notifications, to fill out the mobile experience (so you could see the notification from Conversations, then just pop open Movim to actually respond).
Fluxer was promising, though it appears to be pretty massively vibe-coded now, unfortunately. The main dev uploaded 1.3 million lines of code to it last month alone :(
I literally use Usenet every single day
I like most of IRC but line termination and message length limits suck
Fix those and it’s great
Who is they? IRC still exists
You’re right, this is an unpopular opinion. That is exactly why people use for instance Discord instead of IRC. Nothing is stopping anyone from going back to IRC or usenet, just that the vast majority of people doesn’t want to.
so in the late nineties I checked out alt. and rec. and they were filled with advert type posts.
Usenet was great until the big spammer who's name I don't remember ruined all the text groups and all the ISP's stopped offering them for free
_xmpp-client._tcp.example.com
Both completely fail to do what users need from a service.
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