#server irc

[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…

[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.

[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.

[tototavros]

my Tumblr origin story: a Microsoft Paint Adventures Roleplaying server

[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

[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…

[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

[anyday-happyday]

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

[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]

[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…

[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

[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.

[tinystepsforward]

I saw you talking about "federated moderation". What does that mean? I tried googling it but nothing made sense.

i reblogged a post about federated moderation bc it was a great discussion for the more technically minded! to be honest i am not personally a believer in the fediverse and similar concepts as they currently stand (i am a sex worker and have used forums/small irc servers and am perfectly wary of instances moderated by people who are not well equipped to handle privacy correctly).

@jv would be the person to ask about this :)

[autumnbrambleagain]

I think my biggest problem with it is everyone with the slightest modicum of influence has their own discord server, and it isn't like how everyone has their own house and you can go over and hang out and meet new people

it's like everyone has their own village and sometimes people have multiple residences but it's learning entirely new little cultures

it's keeping up with 10 servers and server A has some people from server B and C but B also has people from D and E and

every server has 20 channels and 30 roles and 50 in jokes and even ones that share people have different memetics so if you're a changeling it's just nonstop code switching and dynamic shifts

because someone who's a background character here is a mod here and someome outspoken here is shy and surrounded by strangers here

in this server you're a mod, in this server with the same people you have no power. in this server you have 30 gimmick roles in this server you're a background character. it's 100 societies to progress in separately at the same time

sever A is cutecore and you can't be rude or mean. server B is full of polycules and open thirstposting. server C encourages bullying actually so long as it's fun. they all share members but you have to remember which server you're in before you speak because the cultural context is completely different in every single one and your standing in every single one is completely different

and it isn't like house parties where they're just active once in a while they're like the worst blend of fora and chat rooms where they move too fast that each morning there's so much to catch up on

hundreds of channels to read or you fall behind but they're all chat channels so it's nothing really of significance to read

discord is really like the worst middle ground between irc and a forum and like wow

everyone really has their own server and I can't have residency in that many countries y'all

[xfce-official]

are we ever gonna get a tumblr linux discord server/irc channel/BBS/mailing list. cuz i would totally join one if i knew it existed. i want more queer nerds to talk to 3: