Tips on Getting in to IRC in 2023? (lemmy.world)

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cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/514910

Channels? Clients? Commands? Other thoughts?

Here's what I saw on a cursory glance:

list of clients: https://www.slant.co/topics/1323/~best-irc-clients-for-linux

how to get started (dated?): https://www.linux.com/news/beginners-guide-irc/

basic commands: https://www.mirc.com/help/html/basic_irc_commands.html

channel list? https://www.irchelp.org/chanlist/

A lot of people use other chats like element / matrix these days too

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[-] d3Xt3r@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Freenode used to be one of the biggest networks in the past decade or so, but a few years ago, after a hostile takeover it went to shite, so most people have moved on to Libera Chat. Unfortunately IRC in general is a lot less quieter and lot more fragmented these days - with the more privacy-oriented folks having moved on to Matrix, the more gaming-oriented folks moved on to Discord, and usually niche, or old school open-source stuff is now what remains (most of them on Libera).

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