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Same. I've returned to things like IRC for my online social time.
YES IRC!!
Isn't that shit still sent in plaintext and permanently logged for all to see?
Everything publicly put on the internet is permanently logged if someone decides to log it, that applies to every modern website or chat software.
But I wrote I DO NOT GIVE FACEBOOK PERMISSION in big letters and everything!
Yes but I'm pretty sure it's a lot easier with irc. Like you can just view perma logs for irc servers. Not as easily digested as say something like this. Maybe I'm explaining it poorly.
To collect logs for an IRC server you need to set up a client that will always be on and connected, otherwise you will only have logs from when you had the program turned on. You can't view logs from before you were doing that, unless someone else shares them with you. IRC servers don't publish their internal logs normally.
Are there people lurking IRC just collecting logs, sure. But that also goes for everything else. If you delete this comment, there are people out there who will still have a copy, it's not that hard. It will likely be on Internet Archive too.
That's why you use pseudonyms and hide your power level. However, the experience is what I'm after.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe by default IRC is only logged if the client opts to log it. I don't remember being able to see message history when joining a channel back in the day, so I'm not sure if servers themselves keep logs by default.
How does one get on irc and are there specific rooms that are good? Hope that question makes sense. I ar tek dumb.
You need to download a client, and then you connect to a server. Once on a server, you can join (and create) channels.
https://www.irchelp.org/faq/irctutorial.html
As far as servers go, I personally enjoy tilde.chat and libera.chat
so (and this may have changed, i used to go on irc mainly in the fuckin 90s) but you need a client, back in the day the big ones were mIRC and pIRCh. i am an mIRC loyalist myself.
it comes with a server list, you just double click on a server and itll connect you. then if you type /list it will list all the channels (rooms). you can see how many people are in each channel, and you can double click on the channel list to join one. then type away
Man... efnet, Undernet and Dalnet running scrollz brings back memories.