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It's kinda funny that I don't even care anymore that "not everyone is on Mastodon". It is definitely a good thing. The same happened in the past with IRC and Telegram. You know they still exist, lots of people like me use them and I still will not use the popular ones that much or at all.

#Mastodon #Fediverse

#fediverse #Mastodon
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Donovan
Donovan
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I was very much into IRC back in the day and having a channel with half a dozen people was great. I think I’d only miss the big audience if I had something to sell, so having less of that pressure is a positive.

News tends to find me regardless.

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Roni Laukkarinen
Roni Laukkarinen
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We still have a very active IRC channel today that has over 100 people.

Social media has never been a channel to sell for me. Marketing, perhaps, but that does not require tens of thousands of followers. A couple of thousand will do.

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Jarkko Sakkinen
Jarkko Sakkinen
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My main tool for informing about new kernel features is mastodon, and IRC for syncing up in dev (OFTC). I use IRCCloud for convenience and first class per-network bouncer (~60€ annually). They are my main tools for communicating in professional life in addition to plain text email. BTW I dislike Matrix 🥲 Nothing ever works when Ive tried it. The product I sell is being a hacker and TikTok and Instagram do not reach my potential ”customer base”.
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Roni Laukkarinen
Roni Laukkarinen
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IRCCloud is great! Used it in the past. I personally prefer irssiproxy + Thelounger or irssiproxy + Beeper. Beeper's Matrix instance is the only one I use any more, I agree the Matrix and Element are too hacky and complicated even for a server owner like me.
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Exerra :meme_catto:
Exerra :meme_catto:
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Do you use Beeper for SMS/WhatsApp/etc? Recently switched to Android and wanted to try it, but the whole idea of giving a single app all of my messaging data feels icky. Supposed to be private, but you never know.
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Roni Laukkarinen
Roni Laukkarinen
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For WhatsApp, IRC, Signal and Discord. Yes, privacy is always something you should think about and if you're unsure, do not use. beeper.com/faq#our-primary-obj…

Beeper FAQ

www.beeper.com
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Jarkko Sakkinen
Jarkko Sakkinen
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Few things I like in IRC over Matrix, or any other protocol in professional setting:

  1. Does not try to blend #security and #decentralization. By not having security at all is one way to implement a sound security model. This allows to design security properties both by means of infrastructure security, i.e. outside the protocol, and also by tunneling, i.e. inside the protocol (classic example is off-the record messaging). This keep the core protocol compact and sound, and easy to verify for correctness, which is by itself a strong security property.
  2. Has both decentralized and client/server based topology since 1988(!). It is a network of servers, which together form an IRC network.
  3. Protocol messages are both rigidly structured AND still human-readable (unlike JSON), and have a clean specification (RFC 1459).
  4. Features not in the protocol itself can be implemented efficiently with bots, given the ease parsing and producing IRC protocol messages.
  5. IRC network heals fast from failures and has high #availability properties, given the clean and rigid definition of what it does and what it does not do.

#IRC #infosec

#infosec #security #irc #decentralization #availability
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