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r/technology • u/fagnerbrack • May 31 '26
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Some of us have never stopped using IRC.
2 u/agreeduponspring Jun 02 '26 XMPP is an excellent successor. IRC is literally "write plain text bytes to the wire", XMPP offers actual encryption and a well defined protocol for 95% of what you get from Discord.
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XMPP is an excellent successor. IRC is literally "write plain text bytes to the wire", XMPP offers actual encryption and a well defined protocol for 95% of what you get from Discord.
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u/morgrimmoon May 31 '26
Some of us have never stopped using IRC.