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nlowell | 4 years ago

We're in all-caps italics territory so I'm not sure how helpful I can be, but I just want to stress the fact that as a modern human we all have to rely on organizations and companies outside of our control. Things like IRC, in 2022, are for software developers to talk to each other. Things like Discord, are built for my mid-twenties friends to talk to each other. If I moved to IRC for the control, I would have no one to talk to!

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Agamus|4 years ago

I have been using IRC as a means to stay in touch with the people I actually care about since the 90's, and it hasn't let me down yet. Many of my friends are in their 20s, and only a few are developers.

oblio|4 years ago

1. How many of them technical?

2. How many of them are of a libertarian mindset? Or very politically active/vocal, otherwise?

selfhoster11|4 years ago

> as a modern human we all have to rely on organizations and companies outside of our control

While true, we should be striving to minimise that. The internet era radically accelerated the rate at which we pick up new "external dependencies", and we should be trying to bring this rate down rather than embrace it.