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hollyhoppet OP wrote

Reply to comment by flabberghaster in "Shutting down" the IRC channels by hollyhoppet

while i really don't like discord as a company i think it's important to remember that the perceived barrier to entry is way smaller than irc for non-technical people. i can't tell you how many times in the IRC's heyday people expressed not wanting to join because IRC seemed difficult to use for them.

i honestly feel like IRC and its successors (discord, slack, matrix to a degree) are major internet infrastructure, and there should be a more accessible version of it that isn't owned by a corporation but we don't really have that.

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twovests wrote

Reply to I don't know why someone came here to post about other websites that I hadn't heard of, or talk about Tor in ways that sound sketchy by devtesla

I missed the Tor thing and I care a lot about online security. It's a real shame that the increase in interest in decentralized / federated communities is in part attributed to alt-right trolls.

Anyways yeah I'm glad this isn't a ~free speech zone~. Ever try to moderate a community while holding a stringint free-speech absolutist line??? It's a tough and stressful and unrewarding task for an unpaid volunteer! And then you get lawsuits or whatnot.

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devtesla OP wrote (edited )

Reply to comment by emma in I don't know why someone came here to post about other websites that I hadn't heard of, or talk about Tor in ways that sound sketchy by devtesla

Your posts were really good, don't feel bad about it at all! I almost didn't remove it just because I didn't want to get rid of the posts.

Feel free to contact us at any time, but don't stress out about it either. I personally check the site every day and would have seen it, and holly noticed it first. Not a big issue, I just wanted to make a post about it!

Edit: oh god the original post sounds directed at you it was not, I've edited that lol

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