linux mint comes with a program coincidentally called Hexchat for connecting to IRC networks. Are these obsolete at this point, or are there still places to hang out with people so i dont have to use discord?
linux mint comes with a program coincidentally called Hexchat for connecting to IRC networks. Are these obsolete at this point, or are there still places to hang out with people so i dont have to use discord?
That would be incredibly bad opsec.
You can host your own IRC server. IRC is relatively limited in terms of what information the IRC client exposes. People also use irc bots to automatically download new torrents.
Discord is privately owned and will send all your info to the feds. The client is proprietary, so you can't change it. The complexity of the discord client also makes it more vulnerable to exploits.
Yeah that makes sense