I set up a tiny private IRC server, because why not

It seems that some people take the time to stop by here. Worse: they take the time to read, and even to write to me by email. I've been thinking for a long time about a way to bring people together. Sure, there's Discord, Matrix, and all that... but they aren't self-hosted, and there are so many different channels and tools that, well... It just doesn't work for me. What if I host an instance of something... The ridiculously self-hosted idea # Ok but what to choose ? Discord: Create a "online communauty" haha ... with whom ? I don't like it. I never launch it. Telegramm : Same ... Matrix: I tried to understand it. I really did. Also it looks heavy for my small server It feels way too heavy for what I need. XMPP: it looks modern, but... meh. IRC: I knew it well, back in the day. It was very old school, It's minimalist, techy, old-school, and will appeal to purists stuck in the 2000s > perfect. It turns out there are now more modern implementations written in Go, and the protocol itself…

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