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Bite My Shiny IRC

posted by mattie_p on Sunday February 23 2014, @09:54PM   Printer-friendly
from the ancient-but-useful-technology dept.

What is IRC? It stands for internet relay chat, and despite being developed in 1988, it is still a very useful means of low-bandwidth communication, serving hundreds of thousands of users daily across the world. We have created our own IRC Server at irc.sylnt.us, port 6667. Won't you join us?

Barrabas writes:

"Some have asked why we run our own servers instead of using a public one such as freenode.net. We did this to have control of the TOS, copyright, DMCA, and other legal issues. I like freenode (and their TOS) a lot, but we're building a community and we should make our own choices.

Landon, our overlord of IRC, set this up with a lot of help from his team. He also set us up a link-shortener sylnt.us domain for the Twitter account: that rocks! So send him some love if you see him on IRC - he's doing a bang-up job!

Speaking of Twitter, Bender, our IRC bot, posts the headlines to our Twitter account, so feel free to follow us there."

 
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  • (Score: 2) by dmc on Monday February 24 2014, @02:24PM

    by dmc (188) on Monday February 24 2014, @02:24PM (#6025)

    While I use IRC a lot I give my "no thanks" already to a private IRC server. ... [some technical reason]... The whole idea behind Soylent was to make things more independent. If you fuck things up, the freenode channel will still exists while your shiny private IRC server will be gone. Thanks, but no thanks.

    Your statement is illogical. Doing things the way you describe makes SN _dependent_ on freenode. While SN doing their own IRC makes them _more independent_. Just like the ancient slashcode, there may be all sorts of reasons why an independent SN IRC infra might burn to the ground. But the whole point of doing _truly_ independent infra, is because you realize that despite failure and rebuilding being a necessary part of the process, the end result is far better than depending on other massive infra with overlords that can be corrupted by advertisers or government censors. Freenode may or may not be wonderful today, but just like slashdot, who knows what their next forced Beta will look like after some new overlords drive a dumptruck full of money up to their houses.

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  • (Score: 1) by omoc on Monday February 24 2014, @03:29PM

    by omoc (39) on Monday February 24 2014, @03:29PM (#6087)

    apparently you do not understand how IRC networks operate