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
I guess that’s a good point, just look up chats by subject, I guess I was just wondering if there are any major websites that people frequent; kind of like difference between lemmy communities versus reddit subreddits versus niche dotcom forums
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).