I miss IRC deeply. We had an internet with an amazing, people-run, free, chat network.
And we replaced it with corporate things like facebook messenger/discord where you're the product.
And we replaced it with corporate things like facebook messenger/discord where you're the product.
No more netsplits. I can't remember the last time I couldn't send a message because of a technical reason.
But I do miss the culture of the old net and IRC. These days only small islands of it remain.
The command that generated the list:
grep -v -c '(\-\->.*has joined|<--.*has left).*#' $WEECHAT_HOME/logs/irc.*.[#]*.weechatlog \
| tr ':' ' ' \
| sort -n -k 2 -r \
| sed -e 's#.*irc\.##' -e 's#\.weechatlog##' \
| grep -v "#channel-i'd-rather-not-show" \
| sed 30q \
| curl -F 'clbin=<-' https://clbin.com
Archived paste: https://archive.li/4OMf3 and https://web.archive.org/web/20200215033709/https://clbin.com...
2020-02-15 06:55:32 kichimi that post
2020-02-15 06:55:35 kichimi was made by you
2020-02-15 06:55:40 kichimi and i wanted to say hi
2020-02-15 06:55:45 Seirdy hai
2020-02-15 06:55:51 kichimi because i love seeing rizon repped
2020-02-15 06:56:00 kichimi but you didnt put a disclaimer in your post saying rizon was the most toxic network on the internetWe're not all assholes. Just most of us.