IRC
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- The Hallway Track … In fact, I should probably drop the whole Slack thing and think about how this might work in IRC. Anyway. Getting from the Hallway Track to the Hallway …
- Just Because We Can Doesn't (Necessarily) Mean We Should: Mastodon and Social Networks Edition … Like a bulletin board! Or an IRC server! Or a usenet newsgroup! The Big City When a Mastodon instance gets really big , its timeline approaches City sized, which …
- Standards; The Bird in the Room … technological development, running a server somewhere and essentially (sorry, Slack) a good-enough IRC server for however-many-of-your-friends-times-five-bucks-a-month is easily …
- No Such Thing As A Blank Slate … this reminds me of MS Comic Chat , a Microsoft Research project IRC client that rendered IRC as panels in comic strips, complete with a pie-menu style method …
- QAnon looks like an alternate reality game … I know, because I and five other friends, and my brother, were community moderators who helped organize players’ efforts, manning the mailing lists and IRC channels. The out …
- That feeling of being there … A long time ago, it used to happen on IRC channels in the background at conferences like O’Reilly ETech as well as in shared simultaneous editing applications …
- *gestures at the world* … when a Slack of group of friends who met in 2000 on an IRC channel got together on a group Zoom and we got to see each others …
- There’s only one rule that I know of, babies … I met my wife on IRC, playing an alternate reality game. I would talk to clients and conferences about one measure of a successful, healthy online community being …
- Snow Crash’s Graveyard Daemons and … This is pretty much just like being /kicked from IRC. I don’t have many newer metaphors or explanations, I’m afraid. Second: there’s a cooldown. You …
- No, not a mid-life crisis; Snow Crashing … Metaverse” and this just feels like a mod /kick-ing you from an IRC channel. You get fully disconnected from the VR experience, and instead you just see …
- GUT; Sixteen Theses … games[9] because a) computers, b) games, c) internet, d) science fiction, e) IRC, f) what else are you going to do with a 100mbit connection to the …
- Not Missing Out … The other way of looking at social networks - say, things like IRC or Twitter that are less identity based and more about *telling people things*, not finding out …
- Housekeeping; Private In Public; It's The Basics … of a standard Unix distro (talk, wall, public web directories and now an IRC server). The thing that tilde.club is *really*, and the thing that I see …
- Ecks Oh, Ecks Oh; Just In Time … But I want to go back to the thing about Slack and IRC - that Slack was essentially the best bits about IRC and then all the techiness, all …
- The Mezzanine; Doing The Job; Minimum Viable Whimsy … what would it be like if we made IRC (and its bots) as easy to use for regular people as it is for us? It feels like irccloud …
- My Followers, Friends and Social Objects … us who've been hanging out in Usenet and IRC since, well, we know what Usenet and IRC are). But thanks to mobile and Moore's law and …