#IRC server

[firstoccupier]

Setting Up an IRC Server for Secure Communication in a Future Insurrection

By WPS News Technical ReporterBaybay City | January 20, 2025 In an era marked by digital surveillance and control exerted by technology moguls, the need for independent communication platforms has never been more vital. As social movements and grassroots organizations rise to challenge existing power structures, the requirement for secure channels of communication is paramount. One viable…

[ircwebnet]

Installazione Unrealircd 6

Per L’ installazione e configurazione di UnrealIRCd 6 su Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, OS X e altri sistemi *NIX generalmente si compila e si installa dal sorgente. Oltre a ciò dovrai anche configurare UnrealIRCd. Questa pagina spiega come fare tutto questo. Anche se sei completamente nuovo su UnrealIRCd, tutti questi passaggi per far funzionare IRCd non dovrebbero richiedere più di 30 minuti in…

[mostlymarginalia]

I admit that I have a secret penchant for internet relay chat. But I accept and utilize the Discord app because I like my friends.

[junipercalle]

Okay, now that Discord is going to get bled dry for quarterly bottom lines (they're looking for an IPO; also, I trust nothing about user privacy in this climate), what chat room clients do people use?

I never was an IRC user but I do know it exists. I've also had Revolt and Matrix suggested to me. Telegram is lousy on a desktop (and I trust my phone with little) so that's not the thing.

[patchoulii-2hu-144p]

The worst part about migrating to a new platform is that discord itself has permanently ruined the idea of online communities; when people are looking into alternatives people get pissy because it's not a 1:1 recreation of discord. genuinely irritating because the only reason why discord has half of these features is that they wanted to make internet communities into an monetizable walled garden.

I wish chat platforms would collapse faster. it's gonna be an enormous pain when discord inevitably capsizes (as is tradition) and whatever half-functional startup offering comes next has to pass three more ephemeral migration cycles before we figure out which one it even is

[psycheterminal]

Treat anything on Discord as media that will be lost

Do not use Discord to host your files. Do not rely on Discord to preserve your text. DO NOT RELY ON DISCORD FOR ANY KIND OF PRESERVATION OR HOSTING!!

It CAN be lost, it WILL be lost! You must consider Discord as a part of the Core Internet, controlled by one company that hosts the servers.

I thought it was impressive at first that it replaced IRC, but now I am horrified. If the company behind Discord went under today, how many friends would you lose?

How many relationships? How much writing?

You may think this won't happen, but I remember when AIM went down and along with it, entire novels worth of interaction with my oldest friend.

IT CAN HAPPEN TO YOU. IT WILL HAPPEN AGAIN. NO COMPANY IS INFALLIBLE.

Back up your files! Download anything you've saved to Discord NOW, before the API changes go into effect! And DO NOT RELY ON THEM FOR HOLDING IMPORTANT FILES!

[zodiacsea]

what if i start playing dragcave again

[good-fwiend-in-wome]

discord is going public soon, so here's some alternatives for you to switch to before the enshittification hits!

[foss privacy-focused discord clone that will shut down in a year cause of not business model]

[foss privacy-focused discord clone that makes you host your own servers and thus no one will use]

[ancient discord precursor that makes you host your own servers and has a UI from the 90s and thus no one will use]

Roblox

IRC, never mind that it supports nothing but text chats

[discord clone that will go down the exact same path in a couple years]

[anyday-happyday]

people will really do anything other than learn about IRC eh?

[arch-official]

I've come to make an announcement: Manjaro Linux is a bitch-ass motherfucker. He DDOSed my fucking AUR. That's right. He took his broken fuckin' pamac out and he DDOSed my FUCKING AUR, and he said his pamac was THIS BROKEN, and I said that's disgusting. So I'm making a callout post on my lkml.org. Manjaro Linux, you got a broken pamac. It's the shittyness of apt except WAY brokenener. And guess what? Here's what my pacman looks like. That's right, baby. no DDOSing, no expired SSL certificates, no 2000$ laptops, look at that, it looks like a purrfect pawsome linux distro for catgirl furry girltwinks. He DDOSed my AUR, so guess what, I'm gonna DDOS IRC. That's right, this is what you get! My SUPER LASER DDOS! Except I'm not gonna DDOS IRC. I'm gonna go higher. I'm DDOSing USENET! How do you like that, STALLMAN? I DDOSED USENET, YOU IDIOT! You have twenty-three hours before the USENET servers GO DOWN. now get out of my fucking sight before I DDOS you too!

We've been over this: it's not fair to be funnier than me in my own ask box. Wtf am I going to say to add to this perfect specimen

[firstoccupier]

Setting Up an IRC Server for Secure Communication in a Future Insurrection

By WPS News Technical ReporterBaybay City | January 20, 2025 In an era marked by digital surveillance and control exerted by technology moguls, the need for independent communication platforms has never been more vital. As social movements and grassroots organizations rise to challenge existing power structures, the requirement for secure channels of communication is paramount. One viable…

[ircwebnet]

Installazione e configurazione di un server IRC su AlmaLinux 9

Installazione e configurazione di un server IRC su Almalinux 9, ma prima capiamo bene alcune cose. Internet Relay Chat (IRC) è un protocollo senza tempo che ha facilitato la messaggistica di testo in tempo reale sin dalla fine degli anni ’80. In un’epoca in cui le moderne piattaforme di comunicazione sono prevalenti, IRC è forte tra gli sviluppatori e gli appassionati di tecnologia per la sua…

[stochastique-blog]

Love me

Well, I created a #discord. Follow the instructions and we can have a great time in that totally #bouncyhouse way. We can even sell on there and trade recipes! #irc #server #recipes #ideas #art #comics https://www.instagram.com/p/B-59SfIhnt7/?igshid=1tywcopn74xe

[ao3commentoftheday]

I just saw your response to gifmaker anon (sending hugs to anon!). First, let me just say thank you for being such a safe space here on tumblr and providing emotionally intelligent advice! It always warms my heart to see your replies to asks.

I am not a gifmaker or videomaker or writer or anything really (although i am tempted to try, maybe soon) and i have also struggled with loneliness in fandom, especially here on tumblr on which i am new. I was wondering if you had any concrete advice on how to reach out in fandom spaces, especially on tumblr? When is it ok to DM someone, and about what? I guess i’m afraid of taking up ppl’s time and energy, and that they think I’m weird or not fun. I have sent asks, but it honestly makes me very anxious, mostly because i never know if the tone carries.

And also how to make others reach out to you — Is it only through creating things, like fics and art? I think i’m a bit scared that what i want to make is not something a lot of people will like, and so i will just have written something i care about and then bare my soul by posting it and then just stand there in silence because no one connects with how i think, or no one understands it.

Lots of love to you!

link to the ask anon mentions

Thank you for the love - and the lovely compliment! 💗

I'm not sure I'm the best person to ask about how to make friends on tumblr. I say that because my perspective on social media is quite different from a lot of folks. I grew up pre-internet in a rural area and so I didn't get online until I moved to a city for university. My first online interactions were using things like ICQ (think WhatsApp without the phone calls) and IRC (think Discord but text only) and mostly with people I knew personally, or friends of my in-person friends.

Because I was introduced to the habit of meeting online strangers through them being friends-of-friends, I kind of have that habit still in place? I don't see messaging someone as intimidating. Sending an ask or a DM isn't scary. It's just waving hi to someone at a party and seeing if they like the spinach dip.

(ironically, talking to someone I don't know at a party IS intimidating to me)

The biggest source of my success when it comes to making friends online has been going into interactions with the friendly force of the extrovert I'm pretending to be. You know how there are some people who just seem to create friendships out of thin air? I pretend I'm one of them. I'll wave hi in a new discord server and as soon as someone replies to me, I'm basically just

Generally speaking, I keep DMs to either conversations with someone I've spoken to before or questions that seem too private for an ask (that can be published publicly). That's just me, though. Other people might have different preferences.

If you want people to reach out to you, reblog ask memes. These are lists of questions that you're wililng to answer if folks drop one of the numbers/questions in your inbox. At least, that's the way they're supposed to work. Sometimes I see people reblog them by just answering all of the questions up front, but that removes the possibility of someone asking you.

One other thing - if you want to prove that you're willing to answer asks? You can always send one or two of those questions to yourself as an anon ask. Just like a busker might drop a few coins into the guitar case to encourage people to tip!

Don't worry too much about taking up space, anon. The internet is a vast expanse with plenty of room for all of us. And if someone doesn't reply? There's a 99.9% chance it's not about you at all. We're all dealing with a lot of stuff on any given day and sometimes answering an ask or a DM falls off the radar.

One last thing in this already long post - Do Not, Under Any Circumstances, Use Creativity As a Means of Getting Followers. I know that's a lot of capital letters, but I feel very strongly about that after years of running this blog. If your primary goal for writing fic or making art is to get followers or attention or make friends, then you'll feel really bad if that doesn't happen as a result.

Make the art because you want to make the art. Share the art because you want to share the art. When you make the creation about the response to it instead of the creation itself? That leads to crushing disappointment.

Best of luck anon! Much love back to you 💗

[cyberpunkonline]

THE AESTHETICS OF ABANDONWARE: WHY DEAD SOFTWARE FEELS HOLY

By R A Z, Queen of Glitches, Rat Prophet of the Post-Crash Pixel-Chapel

INTRO: Oi, you ever boot up a DOSBox emulator and feel your soul whisper "Amen"? No? Then saddle up, you absolute fetus, 'cause we’re going full pilgrimage through the haunted cathedrals of dead code, cursed shareware, and disc rot salvation. This is for the ones who dream in .BMPs, weep in MIDI, and hit “Yes to All” when copying cracked ZIPs from forgotten FTPs at 3AM. Abandonware ain’t just nostalgia—it’s digital necromancy. And some of us are bloody good at it.

DEAD SOFTWARE = HOLY SHRINE

Let’s be clear: abandonware is software that’s been, well, abandoned. The devs moved on. The publisher collapsed in a puff of VC smoke. The website's now a spammy shell selling beard oil or crack cocaine. The software? Unupdated. Unsupported. Gloriously obsolete.

So why does launching Hover! or Starship Titanic in 2025 feel like entering a chapel with weird lighting and a dial-up modem choir?

Because it’s sacred, mate.

We’re not talking about the games themselves being perfect. A lot of them were janky as hell. We’re talking vibe. These programs exist outside capitalism now. They’re post-market. Post-hype. They don’t want your money, your updates, your logins. They just want your attention—pure and simple. You’re not a user anymore. You’re a curator. A digital monk brushing dust off EXEs and praying to the Gods of IRQ Conflicts and SoundBlaster settings.

WHY IT HITS DIFFERENT

Dead software doesn’t update. It doesn’t push patches or ads. It won’t ask you to connect your Google account to play Math Blaster. It’s a sealed time capsule. Booting it up is like receiving an artifact from a parallel dimension where the internet still had webrings and every kid thought Quake mods would lead to a dream job at ID Software.

But it also represents a lost sincerity. These weren’t games made to hook you for eternity with algorithms. These were games made by six dudes in a shed with a caffeine problem and one working CD burner. And their README files were poetry. Half of them end with “Contact us on AOL or send a floppy to our PO Box.” What do you mean you don’t know what a PO Box is?

FOR THE ZOOMIES: YOU JUST MISSED THE GOLDEN ROT

Listen up, juniors. If you were born after 2005, you missed the age when the internet was held together with chewing gum, JPEG artifacts, and unspoken respect.

Back then, finding a rare game was an adventure. Not an algorithm. You didn’t scroll TikTok and get spoon-fed vibes. You climbed through broken Geocities links and begged on IRC channels. You learned to read. You learned to search. You learned that “No-CD crack” doesn’t mean what your mum thinks it means.

So here’s your initiation: go download something weird from a forgotten archive. No guides. No Discord server. Just the raw, terrifying joy of not knowing if you’ve just installed Robot Workshop Deluxe or a Russian trojan. Welcome to the cult.

THE TWO-YEAR RULE

Online communities? They’re mayflies with usernames. Peak lifespan? Two years.

Here’s the cycle:

A niche game/tool/art style gets revived.

People form a forum/Reddit/Discord.

A zine or remix scene emerges.

Drama. Mods quit. Someone forks the project.

Everyone vanishes.

This cycle has always existed. The only difference now is that it’s faster. But dead software bypasses this. It’s post-community. You don’t have to join a scene. You are the scene. Every time you open it up, you’re plugging into a ghost socket. You’re chatting with echoes. It’s beautiful.

CONCLUSION: THIS IS A RELIGION NOW. PRACTICE IT.

Abandonware isn’t about gaming. It’s about reclaiming reverence. About saying “This mattered” even if no one else remembers it did. It’s about surfing the ruins, not for loot, but for meaning. There’s holiness in opening a program that hasn’t been touched in decades and seeing it still works. Still waits for you. Still loads that same intro MIDI with the confidence of a god.

So light a candle. Install a CRT filter. Screenshot that low-res menu and print it on a t-shirt. You’re not just playing with the past. You’re preserving the bones of the digital age.

See you in the BIOS, kids.

—

RAZ out.

[crazysodomite]

assorted discord thoughts:

easy access for 'fans' of a 'creator' to talk to them in a parasocial environment that is semi-public but also closed off to anyone whos not part of the community (anyone can join but its not public like a forum and everything can be erased without archival)

everyone in a server being able to dm each other by default or having the expectation that a mod or even the creator you follow can dm you and talk to you one on one without the dms being accessible to anyone (as opposed to mod mail/pms on a forum or website where mods can check the pms in case of a violation)

the fucking insane discord specific behaviors like getting mad someone doesnt immediately reply to you if they have a green circle or having to constantly have the red or yellow circle to signify something

the phenomenon of vent channels or intro channels (where people often overshare) or having your personal info in your discord bio and other shit like that

but tbh this isnt discord specific the same shit has been happening on skype and irc and etc but the server shit is definitely a discordesque phenomenon